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Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 22:17:30 -0700
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To: Mark Tomlin <dygear@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] make install overwriting php.ini
From: jordan.ledoux@gmail.com (Jordan LeDoux)

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On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 6:27 PM Mark Tomlin <dygear@gmail.com> wrote:

> To the release managers of PHP, please make sure that you do not overwrite
> the php.ini file. Making the php.ini.defaults file in the */usr/local/lib*
> is fine, but overwriting it when running *make install* is going to break
> some setups. This happened in both 8.2.0RC1 and now 8.2.0RC2.
>
> Please and thank you.
>
> --
> Thank you for your time,
> Mark 'Dygear' Tomlin;
>

I thought the `php.ini.defaults` file was owned by the PHP build process,
and the proper way to use it is to copy it before modifying? I'm fairly
certain that's documented. This sounds like a "do it the wrong way at your
own risk" type thing?

Jordan

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