Sunanda Menon wrote:
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> Sriram Natarajan wrote:
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>> 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 ?
>>
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> 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.
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can u elaborate as to what does it mean when you say 'we did away'..
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>> thanks
>> sriram
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