Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:21343 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 60876 invoked by uid 1010); 27 Dec 2005 12:57:20 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 60861 invoked from network); 27 Dec 2005 12:57:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 27 Dec 2005 12:57:20 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.1.27.86 spc2-hava1-4-0-cust86.cosh.broadband.ntl.com Received: from ([82.1.27.86:12248] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id 45/AF-28258-F2A31B34 for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 07:57:19 -0500 Message-ID: <45.AF.28258.F2A31B34@pb1.pair.com> To: internals@lists.php.net Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 12:57:16 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <31.03.28258.9D23FA34@pb1.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <31.03.28258.9D23FA34@pb1.pair.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 82.1.27.86 Subject: Re: The PHP Installer (Windows) From: nick.telford@ntlworld.com (Nicholas Telford) The MySQL client is not part of the PHP core which is what the installer installs. However, if any work is to be done on the installer it might be nice to package it will all non-pecl libs and have a selection dialog during the install to select the modules to install, the installer could then also enable the selected modules in php.ini. Quite frankly I've given up helping people who are too blind to read the descriptions on the download page, it does quite plainly state that the installer gives them core PHP only. Nicholas Telford Matt Wilson wrote: > I'm curious why this exists. It doesn't seem to do anything but harm? > Not a day goes by where I'm not asked why some one can't get mysql to > work with php because of this thing... > > Just wondering why its there, is all.