To those wondering how tied to symfony it is, consider this: It uses the process, console, and autoloader components. That being said, as a user, you need not

To those wondering how tied to symfony it is, consider this: It uses the process, console, and autoloader components. That being said, as a user, you need not worry about that. You put the composer.phar somewhere and invoke it. If that isn't more useable than pyrus, I'd be interested to here what is.