Description: ------------ When using PHP 5.3.x and doing "pear list-upgrades", Console_Getopt 1.4.0 is shown - despite it being PHP 5.4+ only. We can't fix that technically because the REST files do not contain PHP version information: - http://pear.php.net/rest/r/console_getopt/allreleases.xml - http://pear.php.net/rest/r/console_getopt/1.4.0.xml So the REST data have to be extendetd as well to fix this.

Actually, allreleases2.xml contains PHP version information - the minimum version: http://pear.php.net/rest/r/console_getopt/allreleases2.xml So this can be fixed in PEAR itself without changing REST info, except we also want the max version in there.

I just looked into the pear code If the channel supports REST 1.3, then the PHP version being taken into account when doing "pear install foo" - PEAR/REST/13.php#getDownloadURL Thus this bug here should be about the "list-upgrades" command only.

About the REST 1.4 code that PEAR contains but is not supported anywhere: It was an idea to make list-upgrades faster by introducing a file latestpackages.xml - http://markmail.org/thread/dziocfdzm32i473i -- http://grokbase.com/t/php/pear-dev/073tnqfk7n/rest-making-list-upgrades-faster - https://wiki.php.net/pear/pear2/pyrus/roadmap#alpha_4_-_api_work_speed PEAR has the code already, but no channel server supports it. Patch for pearweb: - http://pastebin.com/5VL95ze7 -- http://pastie.org/pastes/527988/text

Fixed in git stable branch. Will be in 1.10.0.