Composer 2 support in Symfony CLI and SymfonyCloud
July 21, 2020 • Published by Fabien Potencier
Composer 2.0
is now available for testing. It has much better performance and memory usage.
It also improves the way packages are downloaded to lower the time it takes to
run commands like composer install
or composer update
.
Even if Composer 2 is not stable yet, you can already use it in your projects.
For Symfony CLI,
running symfony composer
checks the version of Composer used in the
composer.lock
file and tries to find a Composer binary named composer1
or
composer2
. If it fails, it falls back to the regular composer.phar
or
composer
file names. The binary can be in the current directory or in the
$PATH
.
On SymfonyCloud, where composer install
is ran
by default, we are now using Composer version 1 or version 2 depending on the
composer.lock
of your project. SymfonyCloud provides Composer binaries for
both versions (named composer
and composer2
) and uses symfony composer
to
automatically make the version choice. Feel free to test Composer 2 in a
branch.
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