Dooza wrote:
> Don't they do the same thing? Install and configure Apache, MySQL and PHP?

I think they do. The main consideration is how invasive they are.
Anything that alters Windows system folders or the registry should be
treated with caution. AFAIK, XAMPP doesn't mess with either. I don't
know about Wamp.

When I first started using PHP, there was a very popular all-in-one
installer called Firepages. It worked very well, but it was created by
just one guy. When he was no longer able to maintain it, a lot of people
found it left behind things in the system folders that made it more
difficult to install the standard versions. To be fair to the developer,
he did provide a batch file that uninstalled things properly, but a lot
of people were unaware of its existence.

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