Re: Why unpackWars=true default?

2003-01-22 Thread Glenn Nielsen
Remy Maucherat wrote: Glenn Nielsen wrote: Chris Brown wrote: My main gripe with the unpackWARs setting is that if WARs are unpacked, it makes it more troublesome to upgrade, because a newer version of the WAR file is ignored if any previous version has already been unpacked (until the unpa

Re: Why unpackWars=true default?

2003-01-22 Thread Remy Maucherat
Glenn Nielsen wrote: Chris Brown wrote: My main gripe with the unpackWARs setting is that if WARs are unpacked, it makes it more troublesome to upgrade, because a newer version of the WAR file is ignored if any previous version has already been unpacked (until the unpacked files are deleted).

Re: Why unpackWars=true default?

2003-01-22 Thread Glenn Nielsen
Chris Brown wrote: My main gripe with the unpackWARs setting is that if WARs are unpacked, it makes it more troublesome to upgrade, because a newer version of the WAR file is ignored if any previous version has already been unpacked (until the unpacked files are deleted). If the WAR file is upd

Re: Why unpackWars=true default?

2003-01-22 Thread Chris Brown
m: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 1:31 AM Subject: Re: Why unpackWars=true default? > On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 09:14:29AM -0500, Shapira, Yoav wrote: > > >consider the ".war" file l

Re: Why unpackWars=true default?

2003-01-21 Thread mlh
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 09:14:29AM -0500, Shapira, Yoav wrote: > >consider the ".war" file like an ".exe" or executable JAR file. > > And I think this is where my interest comes from. Your considerations > are exactly the opposite of Costin's (I think it was Costin anyways), > who considers the .

RE: Why unpackWars=true default?

2003-01-21 Thread Shapira, Yoav
Howdy, >always apply). All custom data in our apps is either stored in the >user.home directory, the preferences API, JNDI, or whatever. We tend to >consider the ".war" file like an ".exe" or executable JAR file. And I think this is where my interest comes from. Your considerations are exactly

Re: Why unpackWars=true default?

2003-01-21 Thread Chris Brown
> Would it be better to remove unpackWARs from tomcat5 since there isn't > that much of a concern for backwards compatibilty on major releases? > > -Tim It should always be at least an option to deploy WAR files without unpacking them. Systematically unpacking WARs would cause problems: the unpac

Re: Why unpackWars=true default?

2003-01-20 Thread Glenn Nielsen
Costin Manolache wrote: Shapira, Yoav wrote: Hi, From my review it looks like Tomcat 4 has always defaulted to unpackWARs=true. I have no problem with that being the default. And it would not be good to change at this time since Tomcat 4 has been released for quite a while. More important

RE: Why unpackWars=true default?

2003-01-20 Thread Costin Manolache
Shapira, Yoav wrote: > Hi, > >>> From my review it looks like Tomcat 4 has always defaulted to >>> unpackWARs=true. I have no problem with that being the default. >>> And it would not be good to change at this time since Tomcat 4 >>> has been released for quite a while. >> >>More importantly, i

RE: Why unpackWars=true default?

2003-01-20 Thread Shapira, Yoav
Hi, >> From my review it looks like Tomcat 4 has always defaulted to >> unpackWARs=true. I have no problem with that being the default. >> And it would not be good to change at this time since Tomcat 4 >> has been released for quite a while. > >More importantly, it would break webapps which rely

Re: Why unpackWars=true default?

2003-01-20 Thread Tim Funk
Not to put words into other peoples mouth, but this was Craig's opinion awhile ago (from tomat-user): http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=tomcat-user&m=104000918909139&w=2 Would it be better to remove unpackWARs from tomcat5 since there isn't that much of a concern for backwards compatibilty on maj

Re: Why unpackWars=true default?

2003-01-20 Thread Remy Maucherat
Glenn Nielsen wrote: From looking at the docs for both Tomcat 4.0 and Tomcat 4.1 in the section on automatic application deployment it states for both that the default for unpackWARs is true. The section on the unpackWARs attribute does not mention the default value, perhaps it should. From my

Re: Why unpackWars=true default?

2003-01-20 Thread Glenn Nielsen
From looking at the docs for both Tomcat 4.0 and Tomcat 4.1 in the section on automatic application deployment it states for both that the default for unpackWARs is true. The section on the unpackWARs attribute does not mention the default value, perhaps it should. From my review it looks like To

Why unpackWars=true default?

2003-01-20 Thread Shapira, Yoav
Howdy, Why is the unpackWars flag set to true by default in tomcat 4.1? I'm not suggesting the setting be changed, just curious about the reasoning. Thanks, Yoav Shapira Millennium ChemInformatics -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail: