Package open-telemetry/opentelemetry-auto-slim can not be installed

[svrnm]

Describe your environment
MacOS
PHP 8.2.5
composer 2.5.5
opentelemetry module

Steps to reproduce

echo '{"require": {}}' > composer.json
composer require slim/slim:"4.*"
composer require open-telemetry/opentelemetry-auto-slim

What is the expected behavior?
Installation of opentelemetry-auto-slim package in the latest beta version

What is the actual behavior?
The following error:

Cannot use open-telemetry/opentelemetry-auto-slim's latest version 0.0.17 as it requires ext-otel_instrumentation * which is missing from your platform.

In PackageDiscoveryTrait.php line 317:

  Package open-telemetry/opentelemetry-auto-slim has requirements incompatible with your PHP version, PHP extensions and Composer version:
    - open-telemetry/opentelemetry-auto-slim 0.0.17 requires ext-otel_instrumentation * but it is not present.

Additional context
As discussed with @pdelewski this seems to be related to the change from ext-otel_instrumentation to ext-opentelemetry and the fact that composer has minimum stability set to "stable" by default.

I can fix this issue by updating my composer.json to contain "minimum-stability": "beta", at the root level.

I understand that this is an intermediate issue, but maybe this can be fixed by either providing a "0.0.18" release which is equivalent to a beta release or by calling this out in the documentation somewhere (happy to help with the latter)

For reference:

https://getcomposer.org/doc/articles/versions.md#minimum-stability
we have to explicitly tell Composer that we are ok with release candidates and beta releases
https://getcomposer.org/doc/04-schema.md#minimum-stability
This defines the default behavior for filtering packages by stability. This defaults to stable

[brettmc]

maybe this can be fixed by either providing a "0.0.18" release which is equivalent to a beta release

The downside I see to that is that people will continue to use 0.0.18 and still not get updates until we release a GA. Documentation is probably the better option, I guess in out "getting started" docs?

[svrnm]

Documentation is probably the better option, I guess in out "getting started" docs?

To add a little bit of context for #1000, #1001 and #1002, I was trying to see if I can accomplish making the "Roll the dice" application the default sample application for Getting Started in PHP as well. Looks like all the building blocks are there, if you like I can take on that change for PHP as well and while doing that also adjust the docs to ask people to set minimum stability to beta until the first stable release

[GrayWolfy]

Guys, I just wonder do i really need this auto-slim package to autoinstrument app? Or I don't need it at all, I still cant get this OpenTelemetry/Instrumentation/hook available. So I continue to seatch what do i need to do to make this work. Thought that this auto-slim can do this. Or can u show me the way with php autoinstrument and manual instrument for php and jaeger, pls. Im dying trying to solve this mystery. And the issue svrnm reported is still there.

[svrnm]

@GrayWolfy please ask that kind of question at the https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-php repository or the #otel-php slack channel

cc @open-telemetry/php-approvers