ID: 11391 Updated by: phildriscoll Reported By: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Old Status: Open Status: Assigned Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: Win 98 PHP Version: 4.0.5 Old Assigned To: Assigned To: PhilDriscoll New Comment:
Will investigate for the next release of the installer. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-08-12 15:27:57] [EMAIL PROTECTED] User Response: Because I wasn't able to comment on an existing bug [ #12363 ], I'll open a new bug with my comments to [ #11952 ], since I believe the reporter was right. I agree it isn't hard to uninstall PHP from a Windows PC (it doesn't change anything in the registry or so) - if you know what files to delete. Most Windows users like easy-to-use installers, so the .exe was a great idea. However, if you use the .exe, you don't know which files are added, so uninstalling them is hard to do. If there would be an uninstallation utility (like most Windows programs have), people that used the installer because they don't want to know about the technical stuff of PHP, don't have to do so when the remove it. Plus, and this is more personally, I prefer programs that come with an uninstaller, because if I want to get rid of it, I know all traces of it are removed with a single click (I know the "all traces" thing isn't completely correct, but that's another issue). And I think other users also think so. Maybe one of your arguments would be "if they don't know how to (un)install from an archive, they shouldn't run a web server with PHP on it". Correct. If that would be a live web server, and not like I use it, as a simulation to build (and test) my site locally (with Apache, MySQL and PHP all running from Windows 98), and then to upload it to a real server, that is maintained by people who know what they are doing (at least, that's what I pay them for). So my suggestion is to look for someone who knows how to do it, and add this feature to the Windows installer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-07-22 15:05:55] [EMAIL PROTECTED] reclassified ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-06-10 23:33:38] [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Windows installer does not create an uninstall entry. Since it places several files (you don't know about) in Windows directorys it is not easy to uninstall by hand. If the installer increases the reference counters for the dlls in the registry (and it should do so) it is nearly impossible to uninstll by hand. Please, don't say: Who want's to uninstall this great software? There must be a chance to test it without corrupting the system. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=11391&edit=1 -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
