Sriram Natarajan wrote:
> Hi
> I was wondering, if I can hear every one's thoughts as to should we
> deliver a symbolic link of apache, php and mysql binaries (at least some
> of the most commonly) used under /usr/bin ? For example, some of the
> commonly used binaries like ab, apxs, httpd, httpd.worker, php, php-cgi,
> mysql, mysqladmin should have a symbolic link under /usr/bin ? One
> argument for having this under /usr/bin is they are easy to access and
> customer clearly knows about this ? Currently, none of this are
> delivered under /usr/bin and users are expected to set
> /usr/<component>/<version> in their PATH before using these. Do we still
> follow the same pattern ?
>
> If we are going to create symbolic link, then what will be the expected
> behavior if a newer version of these components are integrated ? Will
> the newer version of components simply over write the symbolic links to
> point to the newer version ?
>
The new version simply overwrites the symbolic links .
Thanks for starting this thread ,even for MySQL this was a big
requirement and we did away with the symbolic links in 5.1.
> thanks
> sriram
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