Closed Bug 527655 Opened 15 years ago Closed 8 years ago

Improve wording of windows registry entry for ScriptInterpreterSource

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(Bugzilla :: Documentation, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
minor

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RESOLVED WORKSFORME

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(Reporter: a.hurst, Unassigned)

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.15) Gecko/2009101601 Firefox/3.0.15 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: 3.4.3

In section indicated, the ambiguous wording should be altered to highlight the difference between 
HKCR\.cgi\Shell\ExecCGI\Command = "C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -T"
which won't work, and
HKCR\.cgi\Shell\ExecCGI\Command\(Default) = "C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -T"
which will.

Instead of 
..."the key
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.cgi\Shell\ExecCGI\Command
with C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -T as value"...

would be better 
..."the key
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.cgi\Shell\ExecCGI\Command
with value (Default) = C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -T"...

Since keys can't have values (they are 'folders'), they CONTAIN values.

Reproducible: Always
Hum, this seems pretty clear to me. We explicitly say "as value", so you cannot do it wrong, I think.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
I am a native English speaker, with a degree in computer science, PhD in physics (pending thesis submission), and 10+ years of registry hacking experience, and I did it wrong :)
Maybe I'm still an idiot.

Perhaps better phrased "as default value"?
Explicitly stated or not, keys can contain many values, the one which is required is the one named "(Default)".
I agree that that is unclear. However, that particular piece of documentation is rarely used, since the only correct Windows install instructions are on the Wiki instead.

Probably we should just refer to the Wiki from the docs.
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Ever confirmed: true
Resolution: WONTFIX → ---
Still valid with new docs.

Gerv
This has been fixed in 5.0 when rewriting the Windows documentation:

http://bugzilla.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installing/apache-windows.html
Status: REOPENED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago8 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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