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Add project type to docs, fixes #1142

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Jordi Boggiano 2013-04-11 11:53:19 +02:00
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@ -87,6 +87,12 @@ installer capable of installing packages of that type.
Out of the box, composer supports three types:
- **library:** This is the default. It will simply copy the files to `vendor`.
- **project:** This denote a project rather than a library. For example
application shells like the [Symfony standard edition](https://github.com/symfony/symfony-standard),
CMSs like the [SilverStripe installer](https://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-installer)
or full fledged applications distributed as packages. This can for example
be used by IDEs to provide listings of projects to initialize when creating
a new workspace.
- **metapackage:** An empty package that contains requirements and will trigger
their installation, but contains no files and will not write anything to the
filesystem. As such, it does not require a dist or source key to be