> This means that if we suggest people to replicate the PHP 5 package
> structure with PHP 4 (move the contents of the dlls folder and the sapi
> folder into the root PHP folder), and place php.ini there, then that
> should work without and special PATH settings either for PHP 4 or PHP 5.
> I wonder why this is not working for Nuno, it is/was hard to beleive...

Show me exactly what you mean and I'll check it here.

> I don't really see, why you suggest that people might be happier with
> moving stuff to system32. I see just the opposite.


If you put stuff into system32 you can basically forget about it in later
PHP upgrades.  That's the 'ease' part.  However, if there's an update to one
of those essentially third-party libraries, it's also dangerously easy to
not be able to remember where you installed the thing in the first place.

 It is also harder to
> remove PHP that way. BTW I wonder why the installer moves stuff outside
> the PHP folder then...

I suspect it mirrors someone's home setup..

>
> Goba

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