Re: RE: note 84643 rejected and deleted from mcrypt.setup by notes editor danbrown

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Thomas Salisbury <tjsalisbury1234@hotmail.com> wrote: > Its not a bug. Its called y'all say the instructions for installing the > libmcrypt are included in the download, when in fact they are not. There is > NO instruction for installing those scripts. Actually, Tom, it is classified as a bug on our part. At some point, the maintainers of the mCrypt library, which is not at all affiliated with the PHP project, must've failed to package the instructions with the distribution. As such, we will need to remove that line from our own documentation; for this reason, we do classify it as a bug. Much in the same way as we would classify it a documentation bug if we changed a function such as ucwords() to require two parameters, but the manual still only showed one. A change in something outside of the manual, where the documentation fails to keep up, is considered a bug for us. > That is not a BUG, that is mis-information. The first email I got was quite > rude, and not really appreciated. I am just trying to fiqure out how to > install those scripts for my cron jobs, becasue my system needs them, and no > one has instruction for doing that. While I'm genuinely sorry that you'd consider a canned response such as that insulting and directed solely at yourself, I'd like to explain that thousands of people receive the same such email each month. It is plainly-worded and concise so that it can be understood by members of the community who may not have a perfect, native grasp of the English language. As for how to install scripts for your cron jobs, I'm not at all sure what you mean. The mCrypt library is actually a binary library that must be compiled into PHP when building the PHP binary itself. If you have scripts that require the mCrypt library and it's not available, simply rebuild PHP with the --with-mcrypt[=DIR] option, where [=DIR] is an optional parameter indicating where the mCrypt library is installed on your system. If it's a matter of installing scripts or configuring cron jobs, please note that PHP is a language in which the scripts are written: we write no scripts for distribution through the project. If you're using cPanel on a *NIX system, your best bet will be to access WHM and rebuild Apache with PHP 5.3, making sure to check the "Mcrypt" checkbox. For any and all other questions, I'd highly recommend subscribing to the PHP General mailing list to ask questions there. You'll find a lot of very knowledgeable people who will be more than willing to help you out. You can subscribe right now by sending a blank email to php-general-subscribe@lists.php.net. -- </Daniel P. Brown> Better prices on dedicated servers: Intel 2.4GHz/60GB/512MB/2TB $49.99/mo. Intel 3.06GHz/80GB/1GB/2TB $59.99/mo. Dedicated servers, VPS, and hosting from $2.50/mo.