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[PATCH] gitweb: Mention optional Perl modules in INSTALL

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 3, 2011, 23:20 UTC
Message-ID
<20110203232048.29709.14506.stgit@localhost.localdomain>

Some optional additional Perl modules are required for some of extra features. Mention those in gitweb/INSTALL.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
---
 gitweb/INSTALL |    6 ++++++
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gitweb/INSTALL b/gitweb/INSTALL
index 8230531..4964a67 100644
--- a/gitweb/INSTALL
+++ b/gitweb/INSTALL
@@ -237,6 +237,12 @@ Requirements
  - Perl modules: CGI, Encode, Fcntl, File::Find, File::Basename.
  - web server
 
+The following optional Perl modules are required for extra features
+ - Digest::MD5 - for gravatar support
+ - CGI::Fast and FCGI - for running gitweb as FastCGI script
+ - HTML::TagCloud - for fancy tag cloud in project list view
+ - HTTP::Date or Time::ParseDate - to support If-Modified-Since for feeds
+
 
 Example web server configuration
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  1. gitweb: Mention optional Perl modules in INSTALLJakub Narebski, Feb 3, 2011

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