On Tuesday 03 August 2004 16:42, Friedhelm Betz wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 August 2004 14:51, Wez Furlong wrote:
> > Thou shalt not put application data into SYSTEMROOT.
> > Don't do it. Ever.
> > Really!
> >
> > Read the M$ guidelines on this stuff, including the dll-hell articles
> > and the setup and install guidelines. Read the documentation on .ini
> > files and the registry.
> >
> > They've all been telling developers to keep their crap out of the
> > system folders; they don't belong there.
> >
> > Do *NOT* tell our newbie users to put stuff in there, because they
> > invariably screw things up during installation, uninstallation and
> > upgrade time. It's a big headache. Let's not go there.
>
> According to what you said I expect changes to
> main/config.w32 .h and win32/build/config.w32.h.in to _not_ make use of
>
> #define PHP_CONFIG_FILE_PATH (getenv("SystemRoot"))?getenv("SystemRoot"):""
>
> for default path/directories
>
> Instead it should use something like "c:\\php5" or "c:\\php4 as default
> location.
> Changing this would have the benefit, that we could instruct people to use
> the default location c:\php4 or c:\php5 and they do not need to use PATH or
> PHPRC, right?
> This sort of installation is also used by MySQL on Win:
> Unzip all contents to the default location, copy php.ini-* to php.ini and
> you are done. This way php is self-contained in a daefault location without
> any modifications.
>
> If one wants to put php in a different location than c:\php[45] (not
> suitable for newbie users) they can use PATH, PHPRC etc.
>
> Hope, I got this right, or I am missing something important?
>
> Friedhelm
Anything wrong with this suggestion or was it too dumb or misleading?
Friedhelm
