NYCPHP Meetup

[Tim Gales]

Jeff Siegel writes:
"it fair to  complain that this is not part of 
the standard install?"

Well the 'power toys' only work in the English language --
so they don't fit in the world-wide distribution 
scheme.

Another thing is that if Microsoft were to put the 
power toy in the standard install, they would have to 
support it.

If you have ever had to support software you've 
written for windows, the phrase 'dll hell' 
will probably be emotionally charged with 
unpleasant memories.

Trying to explain to customers that they have 
altered the dynamic linking path for an 
executable can be a major time-waster.

Along these lines, I think (or rather recall 
dimly) that many PHP installation instructions 
suggest you put your php dll's in the 'system32' 
(or the equivalent) folder.

If you follow that advice, it can make setting up 
a (windows) test environment to compare PHP 4 and 
PHP 5 a real battle.

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