[PROPOSAL] Tomcat 4 unpacking of WAR files behavior

2001-03-03 Thread Glenn Nielsen
"Craig R. McClanahan" wrote: Remy Maucherat wrote: Remy, What I am trying to do is start a discussion of _what_ the behaviour should be, so it can be fixed. I already consider the current behaviour to be broken. I'm mixed on the subject. Craig implemented it that way, so I

Re: [PROPOSAL] Tomcat 4 unpacking of WAR files behavior

2001-03-03 Thread Remy Maucherat
"Craig R. McClanahan" wrote: Remy Maucherat wrote: The original rationale for the current behavior was/is a very common user error with Tomcat 3.x -- it goes like this: * User drops a WAR file into "webapps" and restarts Tomcat * Tomcat auto-expands the WAR and runs fine * User