Re: installshield

From:	waldschrott	Date:	Mon, 14 Aug 2000 23:48:41 +0000
Subject:	Re: installshield
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a very good idea in my eyes, that fits windows user current behaviour, click, fill sth. in, install finished... :) regards Phil Driscoll wrote:

Im no installshield Guru... Nor am I an Installshield (or indeed Windows) guru! My initial plan was to do an installer that allowed sundry extension modules to be picked from a list, ask a few questions such as 'smtp server address' in order to brew up an appropriate php.ini file, copy the php.exe and appropriate dlls to the specified directory, then fiddle the registry to get the script mapping set for IIS or PWS, and finally stop and start the appropriate services (or wimp out and insist on a reset!). As has been pointed out, a manual Windows install is easy, but we still get loads of help requests from users who have bogged it up. I reckon (at least for a first pass) that any users who have chosen Apache have already proved that they have enough brain cells to install things themselves. Having said that, we still get loads of messages from people who have not done all the requisite changes to httpd.conf. Cheers -- Phil Driscoll Dial Solutions +44 (0)113 294 5112 http://www.dialsolutions.com http://www.dtonline.org