Add note about requiring composer for plugin dev, fixes #6132

7 years ago · 4b11bbccef
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--- a/doc/articles/custom-installers.md
+++ b/doc/articles/custom-installers.md
@ -85,10 +85,16 @@ Example:
    },
    "require": {
        "composer-plugin-api": "^1.0"
+    },
+    "require-dev": {
+        "composer/composer": "^1.3"
    }
 }
 ```

+The example above has Composer itself in its require-dev, which allows you to use
+the Composer classes in your test suite for example.
+
 ### The Plugin class

 The class defining the Composer plugin must implement the