Composer scaffolding change in Drupal 8.8 core

Finally taking notes on how to deal with it, and related .

webflo/drupal-core-require-dev was preventing upgrading 8.6 to 8.7 using composer [#3052057] | Drupal.org

Add core scaffold assets to drupal/core’s composer.json extra field [#3067645] | Drupal.org

Add composer-ready project templates to Drupal core [#2982680] | Drupal.org

Guide to the Drupal 8.8 Update | Palantir.net | Chicago web strategy, design, Drupal development, consulting

drupal/core-composer-scaffold: A flexible Composer project scaffold builder.

Stop using wikimedia/composer-merge-plugin [#2912387] | Drupal.org

https://www.drupal.org/docs/develop/using-composer/using-drupals-composer-scaffold#toc_4

This elegant right way to do it isn’t so elegant for .htaccess because stuff like RewriteCond for redirects need to be mixed in with what’s already there.

The patch approach should work… we’d have to