On 14 February 2006 12:48, Jean-Sébastien Goupil wrote:

>  Ok, I was wondering if this was still true because Nuno said :
>  
>  "We don't advise users to copy files to the windows directory anymore.
>  Users should add the PHP dir to the path, as is explained in
>  http://php.net/install.windows.manual. So can you please remove that
>  info? " http://news.php.net/php.doc/969371458
>  
>  So :) ?

>  > On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, [ISO-8859-1] Jean-Sébastien Goupil wrote:
>  > 
>  > > <para>
>  > > The PHP manual used to promote the copying of files into the
>  > > Windows system directory, this is because this directory
>  > > (<filename>C:\Windows</filename>,
>  <filename>C:\WINNT</filename>, etc.)
>  > > is by default in the systems PATH.  Copying files into the Windows
>  > > system directory has long since been deprecated and may cause
>  > > problems. </para> 

So?  Where's the problem?  Nuno says "We don't advise users to copy files to the windows dir
ectory anymore"; the other bit you quoted says "Copying files into the Windows system direct
ory has long since been deprecated".  Those two statements seem to be in accord to me.

Cheers!

Mike

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