Update used pimple version in Silex application

Question

I'm currently creating an application using silex 1.3 .

I want to use the dflydev doctrine orm service provider .

For this service provider pimple >=2.1 is needed - but my silex version comes with pimple 1.x.

I've tried to install a newer version via composer, but this results in an error:

Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

Problem 1 - silex/silex v1.3.0 requires pimple/pimple ~1.0 -> no matching package foun d. - silex/silex v1.3.0 requires pimple/pimple ~1.0 -> no matching package foun d. - silex/silex v1.3.0 requires pimple/pimple ~1.0 -> no matching package foun d. - Installation request for silex/silex v1.3.0 -> satisfiable by silex/silex[ v1.3.0].

So my question is: how Can I update this pimple version?

EDIT: I've just seen that there's an older release of the dflydev-doctrine-orm-service-provider, which uses pimple 1.x, so I guess I have to use this version. Nevertheless, I would be intereseted if an update is (theoretical) possible.

Answer 1

Considering how closely Silex is coupled to Pimple, it is not possible to upgrade Pimple without breaking a lot of things in Silex. That said, the upgrade has been a work in progress for a while.

There are several closed issues to update Silex to the new version. Here's one , though there does not seem to be any roadmap for the upgrade.

The master branch of Silex has upgraded to Pimple 3.0. I would watch that branch for any progress. However, as I'm sure you noticed, Pimple 2-3 is not backwards compatible with Pimple 1.0, so if you do upgrade at some point, your other 3rd party service providers will not work until they are updated as well.