Proposal to remove hard dependency on carbonphp/carbon-doctrine-types about carbon

[kylekatarnls]

This is already in the roadmap: #1681

[kylekatarnls]

Side note is it carbonphp/carbon-doctrine-types that you call a "relatively huge DB lib"? 👀 It's like 7 files of 10 lines of code. 🤷

[arokettu]

@kylekatarnls No, I mean Doctrine itself of course
It gave me conflicts when I was updating Doctrine (on a project that uses it) so I thought that carbonphp/carbon-doctrine-types depends on it, now I see the declaration where it is in a "conflicts" section, sorry

[kylekatarnls]

Indeed carbonphp/carbon-doctrine-types does not include doctrine, it has no dependencies.

Note that carbonphp/carbon-doctrine-types uses the conflict so it can install the correct version needed to bridge with doctrine, but each doctrine version has a version of carbonphp/carbon-doctrine-types that supports it and carbon itself allow any version of carbonphp/carbon-doctrine-types which is the actual point of this library: not having to support multiple version of doctrine directly in carbon but to have it picked dynamically. Depending how you add dependencies and in which it might install by default the last version of carbon-doctrine-types then composer not downgrading automatically the version if you have a lower version of doctrine.

In such case, running:

composer require doctrine/dbal carbonphp/carbon-doctrine-types

Should help composer to find what versions to install.