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authorcyeh%bluemartini.com <>2000-06-20 07:14:25 +0000
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fix GD and Chart::Lines documenation
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@@ -43,10 +43,10 @@ news://news.mozilla.org/19990913183810.SVTR29939.mta02@onebox.com
2. Perl (5.004 or greater)
3. DBI Perl module
4. Data::Dumper Perl module
- 5. MySQL related Perl module collection
+ 5. DBD::mySQL
6. TimeDate Perl module collection
- 7. GD perl module (1.18 or 1.19)
- 8. Chart::Base Perl module (0.99 through 0.99b)
+ 7. GD perl module (1.8.3)
+ 8. Chart::Base Perl module (0.99c)
9. The web server of your choice
Bugzilla has quite a few prerequisites, but none of them are TCL.
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ most interested in is the Date::Format module, but installing all of them
is probably a good idea anyway. The standard Perl module installation
instructions should work perfectly for this simple package.
-1.7. GD Perl module (1.18 or 1.19)
+1.7. GD Perl module (1.8.3)
The GD library was written by Thomas Boutell a long while ago to
programatically generate images in C. Since then it's become almost a
@@ -173,22 +173,21 @@ graphs on the fly. That's what bugzilla will be using it for so you'd
better install it if you want any of the graphing to work.
Actually bugzilla uses the Graph module which relies on GD itself,
but isn't that always the way with OOP. At any rate, you can find the
-GD library on CPAN (link in Appendix A). Note, however, that you MUST
-use version 1.18 or 1.19, because newer versions have dropped support
-for GIFs in favor of PNGs, and bugzilla has not yet been updated to
-deal with this.
+GD library on CPAN (link in Appendix A).
The latest version of the GD library can be found at:
http://www.boutell.com/gd/
-1.8. Chart::Base Perl module (0.99 through 0.99b)
+1.8. Chart::Base Perl module (0.99c)
The Chart module provides bugzilla with on-the-fly charting
abilities. It can be installed in the usual fashion after it has been
fetched from CPAN where it is found as the Chart-x.x... tarball in a
directory to be listed in Appendix A. Note that as with the GD perl
-module, only the specific versions listed above will work.
+module, only the specific versions listed above will work. Earlier
+versions used GIF's, which are no longer supported by the latest
+versions of GD.
1.9. HTTP server