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diff --git a/docs/en/rst/installing/windows.rst b/docs/en/rst/installing/windows.rst index bf33ca330..ef1a1f6f4 100644 --- a/docs/en/rst/installing/windows.rst +++ b/docs/en/rst/installing/windows.rst @@ -3,28 +3,34 @@ Windows ####### -Making Bugzilla work on Windows is more difficult than making it work on Unix, -fewer Bugzilla developers use it and so it's less well supported. We would -particularly recommend against doing it for a large site. However, if -you are still determined to go ahead, here's how. +Making Bugzilla work on Windows is not more difficult than making it work on +Linux. However, fewer developers use Windows to test Bugzilla and so we would +still recommend using Linux for large sites to get better support. .. windows-install-perl: -ActiveState Perl -================ +Perl +==== -ActiveState make a popular distribution of Perl for Windows. +You have two main choices to install Perl on Windows: ActivePerl and Strawberry +Perl. -Download the ActiveState Perl 5.12.4 or higher MSI installer from the +The ActivePerl Windows Installer can be downloaded from the `ActiveState website <http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/downloads>`_. - -ActiveState Perl uses a standard Windows Installer. Install, sticking with -the defaults, which will install Perl into :file:`C:\\Perl`. It is not +Perl will be installed by default into :file:`C:\\Perl`. It is not recommended to install Perl into a directory containing a space, such as -:file:`C:\\Program Files`. +:file:`C:\\Program Files`. Once the install has completed, log out and log in +again to pick up the changes to the ``PATH`` environment variable. + +The Strawberry Perl Windows Installer can be downloaded from the +`Strawberry Perl website <http://strawberryperl.com>`_. Perl will be installed +by default into :file:`C:\\Strawberry`. -Once the install has completed, log out and log in again to pick up the -changes to the ``PATH`` environment variable. +One big advantage of Strawberry Perl over ActivePerl is that with Strawberry +Perl, you can use the usual tools available on other OSes to install missing +Perl modules directly from CPAN, whereas ActivePerl requires you to use its own +:file:`ppm` tool to download pre-compiled Perl modules from ActiveState. +The modules in the ActivePerl repository may be a bit older than those on CPAN. .. _windows-install-bzfiles: @@ -37,7 +43,7 @@ git from the `git website <http://git-scm.com/download>`_, and then run: :command:`git clone --branch release-X.X-stable https://git.mozilla.org/bugzilla/bugzilla C:\\bugzilla` where "X.X" is the 2-digit version number of the stable release of Bugzilla -that you want (e.g. 4.4). +that you want (e.g. 5.0). The rest of this documentation assumes you have installed Bugzilla into :file:`C:\\bugzilla`. Adjust paths appropriately if not. @@ -53,16 +59,17 @@ which any competent Windows archiving tool should be able to open. Perl Modules ============ -Bugzilla requires a number of perl modules to be installed. They are -available in the ActiveState repository, and are installed with the -:file:`ppm` tool. You can either use it on the command line, as below, -or just type :command:`ppm`, and you will get a GUI. +Bugzilla requires a number of Perl modules to be installed. Some of them are +mandatory, and some others, which enable additional features, are optional. +If you are using ActivePerl, these modules are available in the ActiveState +repository, and are installed with the :file:`ppm` tool. You can either use it +on the command line as below, or just type :command:`ppm`, and you will get a GUI. If you use a proxy server or a firewall you may have trouble running PPM. This is covered in the `ActivePerl FAQ <http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePerl/faq/ActivePerl-faq2.html#ppm_and_proxies>`_. -Install the following modules with: +Install the following mandatory modules with: :command:`ppm install <modulename>` @@ -120,12 +127,15 @@ installed: * File-Copy-Recursive * GraphViz -.. warning:: These lists have been extracted from Bugzilla's source code and - have not been tested. Please let us know if you find errors in it - of any sort. +If you are using Strawberry Perl, you should use the :file:`install-module.pl` +script to install modules, which is the same script used for Linux. Some of +the required modules are already installed by default. The remaining ones can +be installed using the command: + +:command:`perl install-module.pl <modulename>` -.. note:: The :file:`install-module.pl` script doesn't work with ActivePerl - on Windows. +The list of modules to install will be displayed by :file:`checksetup.pl`; see +below. .. _windows-config-webserver: |