jetty - mortbay jetty5 servlet-2.4 impl
jetty6 - mortbay jetty6 architectural change, done from scratch, servlet-2.5 impl
jetty7 - eclipse jetty7 (servlet-2.5 impl)
jetty8 - eclipse jetty8 (servlet-3.0 impl)

If that naming convention is followed, any of them can co-exist on a machine. (Eg eclipse still uses jetty5 internally but your project could be using jetty6 on the same machine)
My 2C.

Cheers

On Jul 22, 2009 9:12pm, Michael Koch <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,





just to through my two cents into the ring...





On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:21:45PM +0100, Ludovic Claude wrote:

>

> Hello Thierry,

>

> I have no preference between jetty and jetty6. I already renamed jetty6

> to jetty after a suggestion from Marcus Better, I can reverse this

> change easily.

>

> With only 14 reported installations according to popcon stats, I don't

> think that upgrade issues are that important.

> http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?popcon=jetty

>

> So the only valid argument are playing nicely with Ubuntu, and aligning

> the package names with what is done with Tomcat.

>

> At this point, I think it's better to ask the Debian Java maintainers

> for an opinion, I don't know what to do. My 'jetty' package has already

> been sponsored by Torsten Werner, and it has been in the NEW queue for 8

> days.



In the past (long ago, I dont know the current status) Eclipse starting with

version 3.3 or 3.4 depended on Jetty version 5.x. Jetty 6.x just was not

compatible. That was a reason to name Jetty 6.x jetty6 and not use jetty

as we needed/wanted both versions of Jetty in the archive.



I dont know if this situation improved or if we should care at all about

this now.





Cheers,

Michael





> Thierry Carrez a écrit :

> > Hello guys,

> >

> > I was wondering if you would reconsider the package naming for Jetty

> > 6.1.19 in Debian (use "jetty6" instead of "jetty").

> >

> > The rationale behind this request is that jetty6 packaging, packagesplit

> > and startup method evolved a lot since jetty5, sufficiently so that it's

> > really a different package. You should expect some jetty5->jetty6

> > upgrade problems if you do it as a regular jetty -> jetty package

> > upgrade (for example, addition of a /etc/default/jetty file means that a

> > jetty server that was starting will no longer start automatically after

> > the upgrade.... until you edit NO_START in /etc/default/jetty). And

> > there isn't so much value in trying to upgrade in place existing

> > jetty(5) systems : their API level changes so webapps need review anyway.

> >

> >>>From an upstream point of view, David already made his point. Finally,

> > from a "Debian Java world" point of view, this aligns jetty with Tomcat

> > in terms of versioning / specsupport / packagename logic. It prepares

> > future jetty7 as a separate package as well.

> >

> > The idea would be for Debian to ship both and then phase out the old one

> > (like the nagios[23] migration) when the new one is proven.

> >

> > Of course, there is an Ubuntu-specific reason for me asking this :) I

> > need Jetty 6 libraries in Ubuntu main for Eucalyptus, and there is no

> > way a freshly-imported complex package from Debian experimental could

> > make it into main so quickly. So my plan is to upload a "jetty6" package

> > that would only build the libjetty-*-java libraries. It would be

> > simpler, and not a replacement/upgrade over the "jetty" package.

> >

> > This would work a lot better if Debian was naming it the same : then I

> > could let the Ubuntu "Debian merge" operate its magic on the next

> > release when the Debian jetty6 reaches unstable, and get rid of the

> > legacy jetty package sometime in the future like you would.

> >

> > Let me know what you think of that.

> >

>

> Marcus Better a écrit :

> Ludovic Claude wrote:

> >> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "jetty6".

> > Nice, it is badly needed.

> >> The upload would fix these bugs: 425152, 454529, 458399, 498582, 527571,

> >> 528389, 530720

> > No it wouldn't. Those are filed against the "jetty" package which is

> still

> > in the archive. Your package is named "jetty6".

> >

> > Perhaps the best would be to use the existing package names, especially

> > since the current jetty packages should be removed/replaced anyway and a

> > removal will mean extra work.

> >

> > Cheers,

> >

> > Marcus

>

>

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