xp-framework/xp-runners — Issue #3: Set default error reporting
Author: kiesel
Created: 2012-02-29 16:35:05+00:00
State: open

I have installed XP on stock Windows7, and it took an eternity to find out that ```xp -v``` would not succeed be related to this error:

```
alex@seventwo [05:30:52] [~/dev/xp-runners] [master *]
-> % xp -v
Fatal error: [xp::core] date.timezone not configured properly. in C:\cw\home\alex\dev\xp.public\core\src\main\php\lang.base.php on line241
```

This took so long, because PHP would not report any error, due to the fact that I installed PHP by .msi-Installer, which provides a "production ready" php.ini setting - this includes *not* reporting errors.

To prevent future cases as this, we could always provide ```-ddisplay_errors=stderr```.