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need another set of braces for composer.json?

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Assessment

Difficulty
1/5
Estimated time
Under an hour
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
php
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start by locating the documentation or README section that supplies the composer.json snippet. Check the snippet as a complete Composer JSON document and compare it with the reported working form. Done means the documented example parses correctly without requiring users to infer missing outer structure.

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Description

the composer.json file would not work for me until I added an external set of braces around the supplied piece of code:

{"repositories": [
{
"type": "vcs",
"url": "http://github.com/engineyard/ey-php-performance-tools"
}
],
"require": {
"php": ">=5.3.3",
"engineyard/php-performance-tools": "dev-master"
}
}

Dominant language
PHP
Stars
99
Forks
10
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No merged PRs in 30d

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