Bug #3094: Instructions for accessing .tar.gz files not included.
| From: | Troy dot Wolfskill at sunysb dot edu | Date: | Mon, 03 Jan 2000 20:35:20 +0000 |
| Subject: | Bug #3094: Instructions for accessing .tar.gz files not included. | ||
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From: Troy.Wolfskill@sunysb.edu
Operating system: Win98
PHP version: 3.0.13
PHP Bug Type: Installation problem
Bug description: Instructions for accessing .tar.gz files not included.
In downloading and installing PHP 3.0.13 for Win98 running PWS, I wasted an enormous amount of time
because I could not access the "PHP 3.0.13 source" link from the downloads section
(http://www.php.net/distributions/php-3.0.13.tar.gz). I almost registered a bug as I found no help
anywhere and assumed the necessary .ini file was not appropriately supplied. Windows users
unaccustomed to dealing with .tar.gz files may find this problematic and register bugs unnecessarily
or give up and resort to ASP. The fix is simple, just add a link for Windows users informing them
that they need to associate all files with extension .gz in Explorer with their zip utility. Such a
link would have saved me 45 minutes.