At 02:49 PM 2/11/2005, Bill Stoddard wrote: >William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: >>For manually installed services, we -should- keep the behavior. >>What good is it to have a user install a reference to an Apache >>service which won't work? > >Installing a service != starting a service. Users will figure out httpd.conf >has problems as soon as they attempt to start the service they just installed. >I guess I don't fully appreciate the value of the current behaviour :-)
If you follow the users list - most users become confused because starting a service shoots early failures at the Windows event log. These are hard for more novice users to track down, since they only get a simple message such as 'The Apache2 service failed to start'. If that same failure happened during a service install, the error is given to them at the console. Bill
