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 + + -- cgit v1.2.3-24-g4f1b