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

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61406&edit=1 ID: 61406 Comment by: ryanpessa at gmail dot com Reported by: ryanpessa at gmail dot com Summary: pecl search and pecl install are confusing with beta packages Status: Not a bug Type: Feature/Change Request Package: PECL Operating System: Ubuntu Linux 11.10 PHP Version: 5.4.0 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Yes, I realize that. Doesn't change the fact that 'search' shows a different version. If that is your recommended solution, then 'search' should show the non-beta version if you haven't set your preferred version to beta. I think it's pretty rude of you to just close my 'Feature Request' with 'Not a bug' (I realize it's not a bug per-say, that's why I filed it as a feature request instead of a bug) telling me that I'm just doing it wrong. I'm trying to help by pointing out an inconsistency in the way that pecl operates. If you think that inconsistency should remain there, fine, but don't be rude about it. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-03-15 21:42:11] pajoye@php.net Set your preferred state to beta and it will do what you ask. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-03-15 18:47:58] ryanpessa at gmail dot com 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 this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61406&edit=1