Is Bugzilla on Windows/IIS a Bad Idea?

[Bruce Armstrong [TeamSybase]]

What version of Bugzilla are you using?  All the
latest builds are pretty much Windows friendly, and
the docs on the few modifications needed to get
working are pretty clear:

http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/2.18/html/os-specific.html#os-win32

http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/2.18/html/configuration.html#http-iis


--- "Thomas, Steve" <stethomas at ebay.com> wrote:

> Hey folks,
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> After some hacking, I have managed to get Bugzilla
> completely working on
> a Windows/IIS instance (with ActivePerl, etc. etc.).
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> Mail, of course, doesn't work, even though I have
> the new build that is
> supposed to make it so you don't have to do anything
> on Windows to make
> it work (like you did before, wherein you had to
> hack code to make it
> work).
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> I spent some amount of time hacking through the
> Mail:Mailing stuff and
> so on, and discovered that, as near as I can tell,
> its not even close to
> working. My initial take is that it will require a
> LOT more hacking to
> make mail work on Windows, so the "fix" from before
> actually made the
> situation much worse. (Note that this is my *initial
> take* -- I hope
> that I'm completely wrong and there's an easy fix,
> but I didn't see one
> anywhere).
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> My overall question is this: should I just give up
> trying to make
> Bugzilla work on Windows, and is it a lost cause? Is
> there any
> significant installed base that is on Windows?
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> Thanks again for your help,
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> Steve Thomas
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Bruce Armstrong [TeamSybase]

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