Jeremy Kendall started a small twitter shitstorm last night by asking why Composer's install command now installs the require-dev dependencies by default. Indeed until a few months ago the only way to install dev requirements was to run composer commands with the --dev flag. This was changed when the require-dev handling was fixed to be a lot more reliable, and the update command started installing dev requirements by default. A couple months ago when releasing alpha7 I took care to note in the ...