[FIXED] PHP: How do I get the milestone version of composer?

Issue

I need to get the milestone version of composer, i.e. alpha7 or alpha8. But the --version flag only provides the git commit:

# composer --version
Composer version a8adbfeb9fc7861deade782938222714168a22a8 2014-09-05 16:28:50

Is this possible?

Solution

You could specify version while install

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -- --install-dir=bin --version=1.0.0-alpha8
./composer.phar --version

Or you could install source of composer.

https://github.com/composer/composer#installation-from-source

Answered By - sectus