Composer Installs wrong version by default

[mhenkel1]

Hey, just wanted to let you know, that if you try to install your package with composer like you described in the readme, it will install branch v2.

composer require spatie/pdf-to-image

Results in this being installed: https://packagist.org/packages/spatie/pdf-to-image#v2.x-dev

Just fyi.
Awesome package by the way, thumbs up!

[pryley]

I had this issue also, composer require spatie/pdf-to-image was installing v2.x-dev 6718a89.

When I changed the version in composer.json from ^2.1 to 2.1 and hit composer update, I got the following error message:

Problem 1
    - Root composer.json requires spatie/pdf-to-image 2.1 -> satisfiable by spatie/pdf-to-image[2.1.0].
    - spatie/pdf-to-image 2.1.0 requires ext-imagick * -> it is missing from your system. Install or enable PHP's imagick extension.

So because I didn't have the imagick extension enabled in my PHP, composer was installing the latest version of v2 that it could without the "ext-imagick" composer requirement (i.e. v2.x.dev)

I checked PHP by running:

php -m | grep imagick

Sure enough there was no imagick module loaded. Fixing this was easy:

pecl install imagick; valet restart

Now composer update gives me the latest v2.1