composer/composer — Issue #121: Commands self-update and about should be available globally
Author: jalliot
Created: 2011-11-20 17:35:20+00:00
State: open

If we install a global composer.phar (e.g. in /usr/bin), we may want to launch the `about` and `self-update` commands even if we're not within a project directory.
If we try atm, we get:

```
Composer could not find a composer.json file in /home/jordan
To initialize a project, please create a composer.json file as described on the http://packagist.org/ "Getting Started" section
```