Re: Re: PHP 4.1.0 Final RC QA Status

From: Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 17:55:33 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: PHP 4.1.0 Final RC QA Status
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On Wednesday 21 November 2001 4:50 pm, James Moore wrote: > Well if your happy doing the installer for now thats fine I'm happy doing it, but sad that I never seem to find time to make it any better :) It's main drawback at the moment is that it relies on an OCX control which is not present on a small proportion of machines, and that it doesn't attempt to edit httpd.conf for an Apache installation. If we wanted to extend the functionality to include PEAR then unless it is a simple matter of copying the pear stuff to a particular location, I'm not familiar enough with PEAR to do a decent job. I would be happy to hand over the reigns though :) > I was just > looking at installshield for a PEAR install system due to the fact it > installshield developer 7 looked more extensable to me :) Maybe it is now - at the point in time I did the research (maybe 18 months ago) Wise seemed to be ahead of the game. What would be really great would be a free Windows installer, but sadly everything I found in that regard was junk. Cheers -- Phil Driscoll

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