From b56ae1a48426f5ec91861eca505c2b5f7826224a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Igor Wiedler Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 18:15:57 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] [docs] add section about packagist --- doc/01-basic-usage.md | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/01-basic-usage.md b/doc/01-basic-usage.md index 169f92d10..2da41c801 100644 --- a/doc/01-basic-usage.md +++ b/doc/01-basic-usage.md @@ -122,6 +122,14 @@ also update the lock file. $ php composer.phar update +## Packagist + +[Packagist](http://packagist.org/) is the main composer repository. A composer repository is basically a package source. A place where you can get packages from. Packagist aims to be the central repository that everybody uses. This means that you can automatically `require` any package that is available there. + +If you go to the [packagist website](http://packagist.org/) (packagist.org), you can browse and search for packages. + +Any open source project using composer should publish their packages on packagist. + ## Autoloading For libraries that follow the [PSR-0](https://github.com/php-fig/fig-standards/blob/master/accepted/PSR-0.md) naming standard, composer generates