There are a lot of people actually using the distributed install files to install PHP. Note however that there are two files:
php-src/INSTALL (for compiling on unix like systems) php-src/win32/install.txt (for binary packages on windows)
Note that there is no single install file containing all platforms (like the txt you built). It would be more than good to investigate how the INSTALL and install.txt files can be built from our manual sources (that is only including platform specific instructions in them and no windows building instructions, etc)
I've made the two files: Sources: http://testes.aborla.net/install-win.xml | http://testes.aborla.net/install-unix.xml Output: http://testes.aborla.net/install-win.txt | http://testes.aborla.net/install-unix.txt
Hm, a lot better. Now it would even be better if the windows build instructions would be missing from the txt, as it is clearly not needed. Would you take on suggesting these new generated files to the devteam? (CC me too please in case you do).
Goba
