Hi
Following discussions on the QA and dev lists regarding the Windows
installation instructions, James Moore suggested that rather than maintain
separate readme and installation files, the installation notes which go out
with the Windows distribution should be taken from the installation chapter
in the manual.
So yesterday, and this morning, I have rationalised the conflicting
instructions which previously lived in the manual, and the readme.txt and
install.txt files from the Windows distribution and combined them into the
install.xml file (phpdoc/en/chapters/install.xml version 1.58). I've posted
my modified version of the file at:
http://www.dialsolutions.com/phil/php/install.xml
I've rationalised instructions for installing PHP on Windows and added a
section on common Windows problems. The only thing I haven't done which I
wanted to do was to sort out the instructions for installation on
Netscape/iPlanet. I don't know that server at all and I couldn't unpick the
Windows/*nix instructions, so if someone who knows the server could split
the instructions for Windows from the *nix stuff and check that the new
instructions match those currently given in the windows install.txt file,
that would
be great - we need the things separate so we can extract the Windows related
bits to make a new readme.txt for the Windows distribution.
I'd be grateful if someone on the doc team could check out my possibly
incompetent xml markup (I'm not at all familiar with the php doc stuff), and
commit the file back into the doc tree if nobody reports any errors or
omissions in the near future.
Sorry to impose on your time with this - I'm currently 'between computers'
and don't have a cvs client to do this myself - and in any event, I don't
understand enough about the documentation system (and probably don't have
enough karma) to do it myself.
Cheers
PS Anyone on the QA list who got my post on this yesterday, please note that
the install.xml file I have posted at the above address supersedes the file
I attached to my mail to the QA list.
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Phil Driscoll
Dial Solutions
+44 (0)113 294 5112
http://www.dialsolutions.com
http://www.dtonline.org
