Re: Fw: [PHP-QA] Windows installer

I strongly doubt (and hope) this is true. I don't think too many people deploy PHP on Windows machines. I'd expect most of them use it for development purposes (I've yet to see a production Windows based PHP server on the net). Zeev On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Joshua Brindle wrote: > > >So they can use the advanced installation. I wouldn't want the average > >user, and every single new user, to have .php3 supported. It's ensuring > >this deprecated extension stays with us until the end of time, pretty much > >:) > > But these will be the users mainly interested in prewritten scripts, and > they will rely on the extension already used by the programmer, i know that > if i were to install some language that supposidly configures itself and a > program like phpMyAdmin which uses .php3 just didn't work i would be > somewhat discouraged from using the language (from a new user standpoint) > perhaps the solution is to add support for .php3 until most programs switch > over, but not document it, ie: exclude it from the installer but support it > anyway, for the time being. > > Joshua > > > > > > > -- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/