
                   Gnatsweb - web front-end to gnats

                            Matt Gerassimoff
                              Kenneth Cox

                                 2.0
                              1 Apr 1999


What is Gnatsweb?
=================

    Gnatsweb is a web front-end to gnats, the GNU Problem Report
    Management System.  It is a CGI script which runs on your web server.


How does Gnatsweb differ from...
================================

    * wwwgnats?   Gnatsweb was inspired by wwwgnats.  Gnatsweb uses
      gnatsd, so your web server and gnats server don't have to be on
      the same network.  Gnatsweb has better queries, and you can store
      them.

    * CERN-wwwgnats?  Gnatsweb does not reqiure any patches to gnats.
      Gnatsweb is simple to install.

    * juniper-web-reports?  I don't really know.  Gnatsweb talks to
      gnatsd directly, it doesn't use nquery-pr.


System Requirements
===================

    Gnatsweb requires that you have the following:

    * The 'gnatsd' network daemon installed and configured, version
      3.108 or greater.  Gnatsweb could easily be modified to support
      3.106 or 3.107, I think.

    * Write access to a CGI-enabled directory on your web server.

    * Perl 5, with the fine CGI.pm module.


Where do I get it?
==================

    ftp://ftp.senteinc.com/pub/sente/gnatsweb/gnatsweb-2.0.tar.gz


How do I install it?
====================

    Read the INSTALL file.


Who wrote it?
=============

    Gnatsweb was written by Matt Gerassimoff <mg@digalogsys.com> and
    Kenneth H. Cox <kenstir@senteinc.com>.

    Grateful acknowledgement is given to the authors of wwwgnats, a
    precursor to gnatsweb in spirit if not in code base:
    Dan Kegel and Huy Le, Brian Behlendorf <brian@organic.com> and 
    Ken Coar <coar@apache.org>.
