From: mbarnson%sisna.com <> Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 11:46:16 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Included note regarding the origin of "bonsaitools", per X-Git-Tag: bugzilla-3.1.3~225 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1b5e69f48be436520b690d7e58006d9034a1f1a6;p=thirdparty%2Fbugzilla.git Included note regarding the origin of "bonsaitools", per bug 174922. --- diff --git a/docs/en/xml/installation.xml b/docs/en/xml/installation.xml index d24f7b9a6c..8d1a94ec7b 100644 --- a/docs/en/xml/installation.xml +++ b/docs/en/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 + +