Should we use full Composer package names or Symfony Flex shortcuts?

[javiereguiluz]

Related to #9691 and other similar PRs we've received. Our idea was to always assume that the reader of 3.4+ docs was using Flex, so we use shortcuts everywhere. Should we keep doing that?

My vote is to keep using shortcuts, but let's ask to doc maintainers: @weaverryan @xabbuh @wouterj @HeahDude. Thanks!

[weaverryan]

I lean slightly towards the longer versions... it avoids issues for some users, and I think people copy-and-paste most of the time anyways. So, that's my vote, but I DO like how cool the aliases look :p

[liviubalan]

I think that a good idea is to use Composer format for Symfony versions <4.0 and the Flex format for Symfony versions >=4.0. According to Flex documentation:

The only caveat is that Symfony Flex requires that applications use the following directory structure, which is the same used by default in Symfony 4

I vote for:
-Composer format for Symfony <4.0
-Flex format for Symfony 4.0+

[javiereguiluz]

Yesterday we discussed about this on Symfony Slack. Most people (all of them in fact) were against Flex shortcuts. The analogy I used was that these shortcuts are like a lottery: when using it you don't know which package will be installed. I'm now more and more convinced of not using these shortcuts anywhere in the docs.

[javiereguiluz]

Ryan, Wouter and I seem to agree on doing this ... so let's do it! I'm going to prepare the PR right now.

[javiereguiluz]

Fixed by #9742.