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Subject: New Installer for PHP 5.2
From: jmertic@gmail.com ("John Mertic")

Hi there,

With the guidance of Phil Driscoll, I have put together a new
installer for PHP on Windows. It replicates much of the same
functionality of his installer, but also boasts the following
features:

- Selective installation of all PHP components ( CGI and CLI exes,
server modules, standard and PECL extensions ).
- Configures the php.ini for the installation, including enabling the
extensions the user selected to install.
- Built as an MSI using Wix (http://wix.sourceforge.net) which is
scriptable and open source so we can include the code to build the
installer in cvs and automate building it. Also MSI Installers are
very useful for Sys Admins since they integrate into Group Policies to
allow unattended installation, and are better supported on Windows in
general.

Thanks to Edin Kadribasic, the public test version ( which installs a
recent snapshot of PHP 5.2 ) is located at
http://downloads.php.net/edink/php-5.2.0-win32-installer.msi.

I am looking for feedback on the installer, namely in the following areas:

- Default install options; what should the default install consist of?
- Lite Installer. The current install file weighs in at 18mb. Would we
want a lite installer with fewer components and if so what would those
be?

-- 
Later,

John Mertic
"Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog: you
jmertic@gmail.com                                       understand it
better, but the frog dies in the

process."

                                             -Mark Twain