On 12 Nov 2008, at 17:31, ceo@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
So, that error message about a missing DLL, when it's really a "sub"
DLL that is missing...
Is that something in PHP source that could be fixed to specify WHICH
dll is really missing?
Or is that just Windows being stupid?
Mr. Spock has calculated that a quick hack change to that error
message to be more specific would save approximately 3,141.59
man-hours per week...
:-)
I'm happy to put it in bugs.php.net as a feature request, if it's
actually IN php, but don't want to waste the resources to mark it as
junk if there's no way PHP could do that.
It's been a while since I've done Windows development, but IIRC PHP
will only be able to tell that the DLL could not be loaded, I don't
believe Windows exposes exactly what the problem was. It could
probably be done by examining the external symbols on the DLL and
manually checking for the presence of those DLLs in the path, but
that seems like overkill.
So I must add "long live unix logging system"...
While actually I doesn't seems like an overkill but it really is.
While the accuracy of this error message is not great there's enough
info out there for it to be a short-lived issue for most people
making the effort required to improve it better spent on other problems.
-Stut
In this case at least. Because I can recall other times that you got
the urge to hit your head on the keyboard multiple times (or perhaps
the keyboard on the screen) in order to get over the fact that the
problem that caused the error was so ...king obvious. On the other
hand windowz in the same situation were logging what happened to the
last episode in the Clone Wars (animated series).
So I will stick to my LAMP server for the moment until I start feeling
that that my masochism side is coming on top. In that case I might
deleop something using Microsoft's magnificent OS.
I have actually saw what I've posted so forgive my poor english. I hope
that I will get better some day and stop torturing people that read what
I write.
--
Thodoris
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