Re: Is there going to be an MSI for php 5.4?
| From: | Tommy Pham | Date: | Fri, 09 Mar 2012 02:54:14 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Is there going to be an MSI for php 5.4? | ||
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On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Steven Scott <chowarmaan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Justin Dearing <zippy1981@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Pierre,
>>
>> I don't NEED it but I like it. Was going to suggest adding IIS express
>> support to it.
>>
>> I can live with phpmanager for IIS andthe command line tools, I find the
>> MSI superior and was looking forward to figuring out how to do custom
>> silent installs with it.
>>
>> Justin
>> On Mar 8, 2012 7:16 PM, "Pierre Joye" <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> As of now, no more msi. In the need of it?
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Justin Dearing <zippy1981@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hello,
>>> >
>>> > I'm curious as to the plan for msi installers for PHP 5.4? Is this going
>>> to
>>> > continue? Is the installer being rewritten?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks,
>>> > Justin
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Pierre
>>>
>>> @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net |
>>> http://www.libgd.org
>>>
>
> Installing to any web server, and configuring the IIS settings
> especially, as well as the INI setup, was a great feature of the MSI.
> It will be missed. I have not worked with PHPManager much, as the MSI
> was great. The MSI also works well with our current software
> distribution tools, which only work with MSI.
>
IISExpress is managed via appcmd which sucks, IMO, because you have to
remember every configurable settings or do help every time. IIS7.x &
PHP Manager works better because you can switch different PHP versions
on the fly.