From c471afab951bcdc78cc4b4f3c543a17b28c7de22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jordi Boggiano Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 20:50:48 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add note about stability flags and min stability to the basic usage docs, fixes #1403 --- doc/01-basic-usage.md | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/01-basic-usage.md b/doc/01-basic-usage.md index 1aadf9359..971aa5bfd 100644 --- a/doc/01-basic-usage.md +++ b/doc/01-basic-usage.md @@ -81,6 +81,12 @@ Version constraints can be specified in a few different ways. minor version you depend on, like `~1.2`, since in theory there should be no backwards compatibility breaks until 2.0, that works well. +By default only stable releases are taken into consideration. If you would like +to also get RC, beta, alpha or dev versions of your dependencies you can do +so using [stability flags](04-schema.md#package-links). To change that for all +packages instead of doing per dependency you can also use the +[minimum-stability](04-schema.md#minimum-stability) setting. + ## Installing Dependencies To fetch the defined dependencies into your local project, just run the