From f4d3755ca78db691d86467509bf11ce603fbc478 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "mbarnson%sisna.com" <>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 11:24:52 +0000
Subject: Included note regarding the origin of "bonsaitools", per bug 174922.
---
docs/sgml/installation.sgml | 17 +++++++++++++++++
docs/xml/installation.xml | 17 +++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 34 insertions(+)
(limited to 'docs')
diff --git a/docs/sgml/installation.sgml b/docs/sgml/installation.sgml
index d24f7b9a6..8d1a94ec7 100644
--- a/docs/sgml/installation.sgml
+++ b/docs/sgml/installation.sgml
@@ -608,6 +608,23 @@ AllowOverride Limit
for Perl. This can be done using the following Perl one-liner, but
I suggest using the symlink approach to avoid upgrade hassles.
+
+
+ Bonsaitools
is the name Terry Weissman, the
+ original author of Bugzilla, created
+ for his suite of webtools at the time he created Bugzilla and several
+ other tools in use at mozilla.org. He created a directory,
+ /usr/bonsaitools to house his specific versions
+ of perl and other utilities. This usage is still current at
+ bugzilla.mozilla.org,
+ but in general most other places do not use it. You can either edit
+ the paths at the start of each perl file to the correct location of
+ perl on your system, or simply bow to history and create a
+ /usr/bonsaitools and /usr/bonsaitools/bin
+ directory, placing a symlink to perl on your system
+ inside /usr/bonsaitools/bin
+
+
diff --git a/docs/xml/installation.xml b/docs/xml/installation.xml
index d24f7b9a6..8d1a94ec7 100644
--- a/docs/xml/installation.xml
+++ b/docs/xml/installation.xml
@@ -608,6 +608,23 @@ AllowOverride Limit
for Perl. This can be done using the following Perl one-liner, but
I suggest using the symlink approach to avoid upgrade hassles.
+
+
+ Bonsaitools
is the name Terry Weissman, the
+ original author of Bugzilla, created
+ for his suite of webtools at the time he created Bugzilla and several
+ other tools in use at mozilla.org. He created a directory,
+ /usr/bonsaitools to house his specific versions
+ of perl and other utilities. This usage is still current at
+ bugzilla.mozilla.org,
+ but in general most other places do not use it. You can either edit
+ the paths at the start of each perl file to the correct location of
+ perl on your system, or simply bow to history and create a
+ /usr/bonsaitools and /usr/bonsaitools/bin
+ directory, placing a symlink to perl on your system
+ inside /usr/bonsaitools/bin
+
+
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