Req #61406 [NEW]: pecl search and pecl install are confusing with beta packages

From: Operating system: Ubuntu Linux 11.10 PHP version: 5.4.0 Package: PECL Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description:pecl search and pecl install are confusing with beta packages Description: ------------ I recently upgraded to PHP 5.4.0 and needed to reinstall the imagick library. When searching for the package, pecl informs me that there is one package available, version 3.1.0RC1 (beta). However, when I try to install, pecl grabs an older version (3.0.1), which is not listed in the search. After some research, I found out that I needed to append '-beta' to the end of the package name in order to install the beta package. However, this is not a very intuitive system. If you need to specify that you specifically want to install the beta package, then the search results should specifically specify that there is more than one version available, which would clue the user in to the fact that they need to do something special to get the beta version. Just installing an unlisted version is confusing. Test script: --------------- pecl search imagick sudo pecl install imagick Expected result: ---------------- 'search' shows both the stable and beta versions, cluing the user in to the fact that an extra step is required to install the beta. Or at the very least, the version 'install' tries to grab should be the same as the version 'search' returns, one way or another. Actual result: -------------- ryan@ryan-laptop:/usr/lib/php5$ pecl search imagick Retrieving data...0% Matched packages, channel pecl.php.net: ======================================= Package Stable/(Latest) Local imagick 3.1.0RC1 (beta) Provides a wrapper to the ImageMagick library. ryan@ryan-laptop:/usr/lib/php5$ sudo pecl install imagick downloading imagick-3.0.1.tgz ... Starting to download imagick-3.0.1.tgz (93,920 bytes) -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61406&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61406&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61406&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61406&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61406&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61406&r=needdocs Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61406&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61406&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61406&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61406&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61406&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61406&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61406&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61406&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61406&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61406&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61406&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61406&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61406&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61406&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61406&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61406&r=mysqlcfg