Another thing about Symfony I really enjoy. Upgrading the framework in one line with pear.

user@hostname [~]# pear upgrade symfony/symfony
downloading symfony-1.0.6.tgz …
Starting to download symfony-1.0.6.tgz (1,905,514 bytes)
…………………………………………………………………..done: 1,905,514 bytes
upgrade ok: channel://pear.symfony-project.com/symfony-1.0.6

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