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feature #4099 Composer installation verbosity tip (dannykopping)
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This PR was submitted for the master branch but it was merged into the 2.3 branch instead (closes #4099).

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Composer installation verbosity tip

Added installation verbosity tip, for users with slow internet connections.

With love from slow South Africa 🌍

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f8d69d4 Added Composer installation tip
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weaverryan committed Oct 19, 2014
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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions book/installation.rst
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To download the vendor files faster, add the ``--prefer-dist`` option at
the end of any Composer command.

Add the ``-vvv`` flag to see everything that Composer is doing - this is
especially useful on a slow connection where it may seem that nothing is
happening.

This command may take several minutes to run as Composer downloads the Standard
Distribution along with all of the vendor libraries that it needs. When it finishes,
you should have a directory that looks something like this:
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8 changes: 7 additions & 1 deletion cookbook/workflow/new_project_git.rst
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.. code-block:: bash
$ php composer.phar create-project symfony/framework-standard-edition path/ '~2.3'
$ php composer.phar create-project symfony/framework-standard-edition path/ '~2.5'
.. tip::

Add the ``-vvv`` flag to see everything that Composer is doing - this is
especially useful on a slow connection where it may seem that nothing is
happening.

Composer will now download the Standard Distribution along with all of the
required vendor libraries. For more information about downloading Symfony using
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6 changes: 6 additions & 0 deletions quick_tour/the_big_picture.rst
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$ composer create-project symfony/framework-standard-edition myproject/ '~2.3'
.. tip::

Add the ``-vvv`` flag to see everything that Composer is doing - this is
especially useful on a slow connection where it may seem that nothing is
happening.

.. note::

`Composer`_ is the package manager used by modern PHP applications and the
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