Add a minor release with Composer's replace directive to unblock switchover

[sanmai]

Is your feature request related to a problem?

There are many packages that depend on squizlabs/php_codesniffer and I can't install this package because the release version does not include Composer's replace directive added in #1.

Describe the solution you'd like

Please make a minor release such as 3.7.3 including changes from #1. Thanks!

[jrfnl]

@sanmai I hear what you are saying, but at the point I forked the repo quite a few things had already been merged for a 3.8.0 release.

So as per the announcement:

I will work on getting 3.8.0 released as soon as possible.

Note: I would recommend waiting to make the switch until the 3.8.0 release has been tagged. Watch releases on the new repo to automatically get notified of this. The changelog will contain the relevant information for making the switch.

The "as soon as possible" will hopefully mean "by the end of this week".

[sanmai]

I understand the timeline is to push a new release at the end of the week. Yet it may have a breaking change or two, and they could require additional deliberation while the momentum is lost. What I'm proposing it to release 3.7.3 now at the peak of momentum, and let folks update like the normally would to 3.8.0.

I'm rooting for this project, and I find it despicable to see a dwindling momentum. Thank you for considering my request.

[jrfnl]

I understand the timeline is to push a new release at the end of the week. Yet it may have a breaking change or two, and they could require additional deliberation while the momentum is lost. What I'm proposing it to release 3.7.3 now at the peak of momentum, and let folks update like the normally would to 3.8.0.

@sanmai I'll keep it in mind. There are still some open questions about the replace directive at this moment (also see #113 and #114), so I'll check what's in the changelog before release and will decide then.

[yguedidi]

@jrfnl maybe create a 3.7 branch that starts from the 3.7.2 tag, and then make the composer related PRs target the 3.7 branch, merge the PRs, release a 3.7.3 from the 3.7 branch, then merge the 3.7 in master, what do you think?

[derrabus]

All of you, please give @jrfnl some time. Until a new release is tagged from this repository, you won't gain anything from switching just yet.

[arokettu]

I have a small suggestion here

the replace directive was added as

    "replace": {
        "squizlabs/php_codesniffer": "> 2.0"
    },

shouldn't it be

    "replace": {
        "squizlabs/php_codesniffer": "self.version"
    },

?

[derrabus]

@arokettu see #113

[jrfnl]

Looks like this may not be needed after all - See #135