Re: PEAR utility 'preferred_state' handling

Hello, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:

Jay Taylor wrote:

Greetings everyone, I have been wondering if it might be an improvement to alter the preferred_state variable a little bit for the PEAR utility. Right now, there is only 1 setting for preferred state, so if one wishes to try out a new package that doesn't have a "stable" release, there is no choice but to change preferred_state to 'devel' or 'beta'. This means that in the future, even packages which have a stable release would still be upgraded to the developer release. I see three possible solutions:

you do know that you can easily override the setting on a per command basis? pear install foo-beta

Just as a reminder, I would tell this is a "per package" basis. You can also do it on a "per command" basis by redefining the preferred state as: pear -d preferred_state=alpha upgrade Package_Foo Package_Bar .... This redefinition will be valid only for the command. -- toggg