Re: Antwort: Re: how to install gnatsweb???

[Yngve Svendsen]

At 10:03 20.03.2001 +0100, address@hidden wrote:

> Well, I had the same problem: the test failed
>
> > [....] test.pl: Can't call method "header" on an undefined value at
> gnatsweb.pl line 2117, <SOCK> line 1.
> > connect...........................................FAIL
>
> I continued the installation nevertheless: I can query the database via
> gnatsweb and look at pr's but editing pr's doesn't work.
> I get change notification messages per email, but the pr's never change in
> the database. I suspected unix access rights but they look OK.
> Any ideas?

Check the gnats-adm/locks directory. There might be some left-over lock 
files there.


> The main reason that I'm trying gnatsweb is its supposed ability to include
> file attachments, although from the documentation I got the feeleing, that
> attachments show up in text format in notifications etc.
>
> Will gnats4 have native support for attachments (so that bug reports have
> mime format)?#

Unfortunately, no. However, since most people who are currently active on 
this list are from Europe, I believe we all feel the need for this. But we 
are in dire need of active developers. The drip-feeding of single patches 
now and then is too little.

Anyone care to do some thinking on how GNATS should be redesigned to handle 
MIME? And how should attachments be handled? Where should they be stored, 
and how should they appear when viewing GNATS reports in Gnatsweb? in 
Emacs? in plain command-line edit-pr?

- Yngve