<DIV>Got it. I've just grabbed the tip and am checking it out.</DIV>
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<DIV>Along the lines of documentation for the Windows weenies like me though, we could probably also use:</DIV>
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<DIV>a. Instructions on using WinCVS to do a tip pull. Took me about 20 mintues to figure out how to tell WinCVS I wanted the tip.</DIV>
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<DIV>b. More discussion in the configuration page on configuring Bugzilla under IIS (which I'm assuming most Windows users will end up using).</DIV>
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<DIV>c. Perhaps some discussion in the extra configuration page about using utilities like nnCron to implement cron capability on Windows, since it's not native to that platform.<BR><BR><B><I>David Miller <justdave@bugzilla.org></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">On 3/16/2004 3:32 PM -0800, Bruce Armstrong \[TeamSybase\] wrote:<BR><BR>>I'd see it as something that might just be addressed by expanding more in<BR>>the OS-Specific Installation Notes. Those changes might also help cover<BR>>some of the other issues I encountered trying to do an 2.17.7 install on<BR>>window. I don't know if it's just an issue with the developers versions,<BR>>but the following statements in checksetup.pl generated errors when I ran<BR>>it on Windows and had to be commented out:<BR>><BR>> my $cvs_executable = `which cvs`;<BR>> my $interdiff_executable = `which interdiff`;<BR>> my $diff_binaries = `which diff`;<BR>><BR>>Where I kept getting:<BR>><BR>>'which' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable<BR>>program or batch file.<BR><BR>I believe this is all fixed on the tip (after 2.17.7 was
released).<BR><BR>Those are all conditional on $^O !~ /Win32/i now, as well as telling you to<BR>use ppm instead of CPAN to get the modules (with mappings to the PPM<BR>package names). That's what the bug was about that started this thread,<BR>which has since been checked in since we decided we'd fix it later if<BR>someone didn't like the PPM repo that was listed. :)<BR><BR>Right now it's also forking on the perl version and suggesting openinteract<BR>if you have Perl 5.6.x or less and apache if you have 5.8.0 or newer<BR>-- <BR>Dave Miller Project Leader, Bugzilla Bug Tracking System<BR>http://www.justdave.net/ http://www.bugzilla.org/<BR>-<BR>To view or change your list settings, click here:<BR><HTTP: mj_wwwusr?user="bruce.armstrong@teamsybase.com" cgi-bin bugzilla.org></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><DIV>Bruce Armstrong [TeamSybase]<BR>
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