Re: PEAR in PHP 4.3.0

On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 09:29:35 +0200 Gabor Hojtsy <gabor@hojtsy.hu> wrote: > BWT the fact that Apache supports this would have already drived > other server/SAPI authors to support something like this. The fact > that it's not supported means that either the server/SAPI > maintainers don't care or have no time for this stuff (vhosts > based configuration). and I do not have the knowledge to do it :(. > Anyone who uses Apache with vhosts knows > that vhost based configs are the greatest thing you can get. Ohhh yes :-). > I would not like to start any flames here, don't misunderstand me. > You are right that it's annoying, that many guys out there think > that it's an Apache only world (hey I am also using it on windows ;), > and that the settings needs to be portable. They are. I do not like the registry too, but this replaces the old : SET PEAR_INSTALL_DIR=c:\php\pear which does not work anymore on 'recent' win32 OSes. From the PEAR codes, that does not change anything. > So then why to put the settings into the registry, as then you > cannot just copy your program and settings to another machine, > keeping in mind, that if you move that generated .reg file it *may* > not be the exact thing from the registry (registry could have been > modified after addign that reg file)? No PEAR setting stored there except the path. Storing something else would not be portable, as you said :). > Windows registry is kind of a black magic thing for many guys > out there, and things like how to export settings from the registry > to move your setup to another computer may not be easy, and will > drive the way to more and more support questions IMHO. Hmmmm, Java, MSDEV, Delphi, they all use it to set permanent ENV variables. As they all use rc.local to set them on Linux. I really do not see a problem here, is there one ? hth pa