php.ini under Windows

For historical reasons (in other words, I have no idea why it's like that), under Windows, PHP will refuse to start up if it doesn't find the php.ini file. Especially under ISAPI when this error cannot be conveyed to the user, this can be quite problematic. Does anyone see the point in this behavior? I want to change it so that PHP will happily start up under Windows, regardless of the availability of the php.ini file, like it does under other platforms. Zeev -- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/