Updating module(s) from private repo

[Rudy]

Hi all,

I have a couple of custom modules that are not made public (for in-house usage only). Is there a way to have these modules updated through the Module Upgrades even if they are housed in a private repo? 

How do other private/commercial modules get updated aside from uploading them manually?

Thanks

Rudy

[Ivan Gretsky]

That is a nice question that has been risen a few times in a context of paid ryan's and apeisa's modules. I do not think there is a solution to this yet.

[netcarver]

I'd like to see an officially supported way to do this, too.

Now that PW3 is integrated with composer, there is probably an indirect way to do this via composer's ability to link into private repositories via the composer.json file. You could probably use this plus composer's update command to pull the latest versions of modules from the private repos. The module repositories would need to be setup to be compatible with composer for this to work.

I've used this feature of composer before and it does work - but I've never tried it with PW.