Composer Installers

[RobLoach]

What is the difference between drupal-libraries-installer-plugin and Composer Installers?

{
    "type": "drupal-library",
    "require": {
        "composer/installers": "*"
     },
     "config": {
        "installer-paths": {
            "your/custom/someotherspecialpath/libraries{$name}/": ["type:drupal-library"]
        }
    }
}

[generalredneck]

For composer installers, you must have a package type of drupal-library for it to go to the directory of your choice. This plugin forgoes that formality and allows you to put any package you want into the libraries folder.

The alternative would to be to customize all your packages to have the type drupal-library

[richardbporter]

@RobLoach Doesn't composer/installers require that the package also require composer/installers for it to work? For example, this doesn't work because ckeditor does not require composer/installers.

"extra": {
    "installer-paths": {
        "drupal/sites/all/libraries/{$name}/": ["type:drupal-library", "ckeditor/ckeditor"]
    }
}