Support downloading conflicting modules within multisite codebases

Created on 4 October 2023, about 1 year ago
Updated 7 October 2023, about 1 year ago

Problem/Motivation

Composer has the option to prevent download of conflicting modules using its "conflict" property. Some modules make use of this, such as acquia_migrate ( https://www.drupal.org/project/acquia_migrate ), which prevents downloading migrate_tools (see https://git.drupalcode.org/project/acquia_migrate/-/blob/1.8.x/composer.... ).

In a multisite project I'm working on, we want to use acquia_migrate for some projects and migrate_tools for others (in the same codebase). Because the conflict is logged at the composer level, we can't do that using standard approaches. And if we *do* bypass the composer restriction, then Drupal will let us enable both modules, which, in this case, is undesirable.

Because Drupal has support for multisites, I believe conflicting Drupal projects should, generally, be recorded at the Drupal level - not at the composer level.

Steps to reproduce

Try to download acquia_migrate and migrate_tools using Composer in the same Drupal codebase.

Proposed resolution

Add support for a "conflict" (or conflicts, plural for consistency with "dependencies"?) property to Drupal .info.yml files.

If a project A is enabled/installed, and a user attempts to enable/install project B which is listed in project A's "conflict" section, Drupal will prevent project B's installation. The same way Drupal would prevent installation of a module if it does not have appropriate core_version_requirement constraints.

Likewise, if project B is enabled/installed, and a user attempts to enable/install project A while project A lists project B in project A's "conflict" section, Drupal will prevent project A's installation.

Remaining tasks

Implement the proposed resolution.

User interface changes

An error message explaining why a module can not be enabled if a conflicting module is already enabled.

API changes

Added support for "conflict" property to *.info.yml.

Data model changes

N/A

Release notes snippet

TBD

Feature request
Status

Active

Version

10.1

Component
Install 

Last updated 3 days ago

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Created by

🇺🇸United States ashrafabed

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