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Besides the painful-to-install non-Windows Bugzilla, what open-source issue tracking programs can be recommended that are just as good but available as a regular windows-style install? (.exe or .msi)

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  • Bugzilla is written in Perl... Perl can be installed on windows. Are you asking for a bug tracker that is a single windows executable? – Kekoa May 15 '09 at 20:49
  • tried to install bugzilla via the instructions using CVS install here but the login to mozilla (anonymous) doesn't even work! https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugzilla:Win32Install#Installing_Bugzilla_on_Microsoft_Windows – PositiveGuy May 15 '09 at 21:50
  • Problem is I don't know if this crap works on 64-bit Server 2008, can't even get crappy CVSNT working on it. – PositiveGuy May 15 '09 at 22:01

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You can try Redmine - a painless installation is provided by BitNami Redmine stack.

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  • looks like it only runs over mySQL or is it local file system based? – PositiveGuy May 15 '09 at 21:30
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    It can be configured to use either MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite. However, I believe that BitNami comes preconfigured with MySQL. Btw, the stack will install everything you need: Apache, MySQL, Ruby, Redmine and perhaps something else as well. – Bojan Resnik May 18 '09 at 10:03
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I have been working with Redmine for the last three weeks and it's love! You can use Bitnami Stack to setup and running in few minutes.

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Never used it, but Trac might be of use here. And yes, it does have a damn .exe. :)

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  • :) weird, just went there but do not see a download for an .exe in the list – PositiveGuy May 15 '09 at 21:24
  • @coffeeaddict: that's odd because i do see http://ftp.edgewall.com/pub/trac/Trac-0.11.4.win32.exe – pugmarx May 16 '09 at 08:06
  • Trac is easily extendable by plugins and there are tons of them on the web. Every 3 months someone comes to my office and says "I found this replacement of Trac, a XXX, and it has the BBB functionality, lets switch it!", and I say "but it doesn't have X, Y and Z functionality. How about We could add BBB to Trac with a plugin". And it's like "oh, I haven't thought about that, XXX doesn't have a plugin system". "Right.". I wish You have fun using it. – Paweł Polewicz May 16 '09 at 11:45