prestissimo (composer plugin)

This is a composer 1.x plugin that downloads packages in parallel to speed up the installation process.

Announcement: Composer 2 is now available!

This plugin is for Composer1; Composer2 is very fast on its own. Uninstall this plugin and update the Composer itself.

Requirements

• composer

  >=1.0.0 <2.0

• PHP

  >=5.3

  , (suggest

  >=5.5

  , because

  curl_share_init

  )
• ext-curl

Install, Updating & Upgrading

$ composer global require hirak/prestissimo

Uninstall

$ composer global remove hirak/prestissimo

Benchmark Example

288s -> 26s

$ composer create-project laravel/laravel laravel1 --no-progress --profile --prefer-dist

Config

prestissimo ^0.3.x

Recognize composer's options. You don't need to set any special configuration.

• config.capath
• config.cafile

Composer authentication

To avoid Composer asking for authentication it is recommended to follow the procedure on composer's authentication.

For github.com you could also use an

auth.json

composer.json

{
    "github-oauth": {
        "github.com": "YOUR_GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN"
    }
}

License

MIT License. See the LICENSE file.