Composer Installer does not allow specifying LTS version

[Brandon0]

With the newest 2.3.X releases breaking on systems running older PHP versions, it would be nice to be able to programmatically install the latest LTS release. Using the installer tool provided, when I run this command:

php installer.php --version=2.2.x

I get the following output:

The defined install version (2.2.x) does not match release pattern.

And I expected this to happen:
The latest 2.2.X LTS version to be installed (currently 2.2.10).

Using the latest installer tool:

❯ php -r "echo hash_file('sha384', 'installer.php') . PHP_EOL;"
906a84df04cea2aa72f40b5f787e49f22d4c2f19492ac310e8cba5b96ac8b64115ac402c8cd292b8a03482574915d1a8

Current workaround is to pin composer to the 2.2.10 version specifically.

[jrfnl]

Just came here to nearly exactly the same issue.

Would be great if the self-update command would either accept 2.2 as a version and get the latest in the 2.2.x series or if there would be a --2lts option or something like it.

[Seldaek]

Yes I plan to add a --2.2 flag to both installer and self-update.

[jrfnl]

@Seldaek I knew you were awesome and you just confirmed it once again 💗

[Seldaek]

Fixed for self-update in 956d44c - available as of 2.2.11 / 2.3.3.

I'll tackle the installer script some other time.

[jrfnl]

Much appreciated!

[Seldaek]

OK now the installer script finally has --2.2 as well.