Idea: sort 'patches' alphabetically

[fredden]

Steps required to reproduce the problem

When using cweagans/composer-patches, a list of modules is added to a new 'patches' key within 'extra'. This list of packages should be sorted alphabetically.

...
  "extra": {
    "patches": {
      "vendor/package": { ... },
      "another-vendor/module": { ... }
    },
    "patches-ignore": {
      "vendor/package": { ... },
      "another-vendor/module": { ... }
    }
  },
...

Expected Result

• Lists of packages in extra -> patches and extra -> patches-ignore should be sorted alphabetically.

Actual Result

• Lists of packages in extra -> patches and extra -> patches-ignore remains unchanged.

[localheinz]

Perhaps it would make sense to keep all entries in extra sorted by key when an entry is in object?

[localheinz]

@fredden

Just released as ergebnis/composer-normalize:2.12.0!

Let me know how this works for you!

🤓

[fredden]

Thanks for this. Unfortunately I'm stuck on composer v1 for some projects, so can't test these changes fully yet. (There's an open issue for composer v1 support: #620.)

[localheinz]

@fredden

Just released support for composer/composer:^1 as ergebnis/composer-normalize:2.13.0!

[fredden]

Wow, thanks for such a quick update! I've updated the version used in our continuous integration pipeline and can confirm this is working as expected. Thanks again for picking this up.