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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] date.timezone E_WARNING -- Really necessary? What's
 the rationale?
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On 2013-05-24 10:34, Johannes Schlüter wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-05-24 at 01:16 -0700, Kris Craig wrote:
>> Couldn't we take a page from MySQL's book and have a setup script that
>> prompts the admin for this (much like theirs prompts for a root password).
>>   A reminder to run it could be added as a nag at the end of the install;
>> or, perhaps even have it give you these setup prompts at the end of make
>> install.  This way, any environment-specific settings we think should be
>> there that don't have obvious defaults, like date.timezone, could be added
>> as prompts in the setup script.  This would enable even inexperienced
>> admins to add these settings without cluttering-up the bugs tracker.
> An estimate of >90% of our users who are actually installing PHP
> themselves are using distribution packages of PHP and not our sources.
> They expect `[yum|apt-get|...] install php` to be the whole installation
> process.
>

Yet it's not uncommon for yum/apt-get/whatever to ask for input (like 
mentioned MySQL asking for root password).

--Leszek