Re: Fw: [PHP-QA] Windows installer

Sounds to me like one of us needs to compile a list of the maintainers of all of these packages and contact them, and encourage them to adopt .php. In fact, if you guys make a list, I will download all of the packages you guys can think of, move the extensions, and submit the packages to their maintainers. :) On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Zak Greant wrote the following to Joshua Brindle : > At 05:02 PM 8/18/00 -0500, 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. > > Perhaps this is a good indication that the widely used PHP prewritten > script should be modified for PHP 4. > > - zak > > >