Re: INSTALL and win32/install.txt files

Hi Sara 2017-07-19 15:34 GMT+02:00 Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net>: > There's some (admittedly limited) benefit to having such instructions > in tree. Is there any way this can be auto-generated from docbook > sources? We could easily add it to the release process. I think it would be fairly easy, for me personally its been too long since I worked with PhD to make a renderer to generate just that > Though I'm not super-bothered personally if you want to just make it a > link. The idea of installing internet software without an internet > connection is a bit weird. I totally agree, it is a bit weird for those cases without internet access, but I think we can assume that 99.9% of everyone using PHP has access to the internet one way or another. If I remember correctly then back some almost 10 years ago we had a similar talk but it was the same concern that not everyone had internet access and it would generally be a "nice thing" to have, I do agree with the latter of that statement. > That's fixable, though should be addressed on an individual basis. We > have "doc" people who have @php.net accounts and have never pushed a > diff in their lives. I'm sure someone with AVAIL karma can see to > their needs if they request php-src/doc karma. True, but barely anyone cared to do anything about it, and tho I don't think the karma is the problem. The only people that updates them is the ones that grep and find a hit. Having to maintain the same resource in 3 places is odd too, INSTALL, win32/install.txt, phpdoc/en/install/? TL;DR if no one really objects, I will turn these into links over the course of the weekend -- regards, Kalle Sommer Nielsen kalle@php.net