PHP configuration directory along versions leads to problems

[rrelmy]

The PHP_INI_SCAN_DIR env is very useful but the current path leads to problems.
The conf directory is placed along with the version directories inside scoop/apps/php

Scoop picks conf as the latest version and also updates from conf to $latest even if $latest is already installed.

$ scoop list
Installed apps:

  php (conf)

$ scoop update php
updating php (conf -> 7.1.0)
uninstalling php (conf)
installing php (7.1.0)
creating shim for php
creating shim for php-cgi
running post-install script...
php was updated from conf to 7.1.0

I would suggest creating a separate directory conf along apps, cache, shims for such version independent configurations. For the php example it would be scoop/conf/php/ and the env_set would be set to following (or we define a $config_dir variable)

"env_set": {
    "PHP_INI_SCAN_DIR": "$dir\\..\\..\\..\\conf\\php"
},

This will break current php installations!

A dirty workaround could be filtering conf as version inside the versions function from lib/versions.ps1

[lukesampson]

Yes, I agree ~/scoop/conf/php would be a better location.

And it would also be good to allow $conf_dir in the env_set. I prefer $conf_dir to $config_dir for consistency, and to avoid confusion with scoop config.

Maybe we could add a post_install script to php.json to look for ~/scoop/apps/php/conf, and move it to ~/scoop/conf/php if it exists?

Are you happy to submit a PR for all these?

[rrelmy]

Yes, I will look into that