GOMEZ Henri wrote: >>This cannot be done, as the layering structure of the ASF >>won't "allow" it. >>It can be hosted either in commons, either here (but then it would be >>swallowed by the TC project itself), or as a top level project >>of Jakarta >>(or some other project)... > > > couldn't it be a tomcat sub project like jasper2 or jtc ? > > >>>Do you remember what you say yesterday about platform problems ?) >> >>I clearly do, I replied to your post saying that "I don't care" about >>AS/400s and stated clearly what my objectives are (compilation >>of mod_jk >>under hesoteric operating systems is not a bug, not a security >>hole, but >>simply a port of a "component" I'm not involved with - let's make a >>difference here). > > > Ok, that's why an alternative build system which may help build > on hesoterico-exotico OS is still good to take. end of story ;) > > >>It's something I won't probably need in the future, and >>_I_BELIEVE_ doesn't >>affect our users community "at large", as frankly AFAIK you're >>the only one >>with one of those little nifty IBM machines I know). > > > JF/Martin from ASF have also some interesting systems ;)
Sure ;-) I hope to run TC on an EBCDIC mainframe (Using Apache-1.3 and mod_jk). > > There is many commiters on ASF who works directly on indirectly > for IBM and use/contribute ASF projects. Not speaking about > AS/400 techies from IBM Rochester Labs tracking tomcat-dev > in silent mode, and I'd like to heard a little more (Walt, Jim be our guests). > > Tomcat is a server side application and AS/400 is not so exotic > on server area. That's why it's so important to get it there. > > IBM use on AS/400, some of the latest ASF works, Apache 2.0, Tomcat > (yes still 3.2.1, they need to upgrade their own mod_jk version > to be able to use tomcat 3.3.1 or 4.0.3 since updates in headers > in ajp13). > > I'm very happy using tomcat/apache2.0/jk on AS/400 instead of > being limited to IBM own websphere. Having OSS on such 'closed' > systems is a great victory of ASF.... > > >>But at least I >>replied... (Ok, now don't nitpick on the fact that I'm not >>fixing Win32 bugs >>on Win32, I _don't_have_ a Win32 machine anymore, at least >>since I left Sun >>Microsystems, and my MSVC license is not available anymore since those >>people testing out builds at the University of Westminster >>don't work there >>anymore...) > > > >>On the other hand, how many replies were there to a >>notification of a _bug_ >>(a serious security hole -IMO) I found on OS/X? Zero, not even >>a (as I said) >>"since you have OS/X can you volunteer to fix it", or "since I >>don't have >>OSX I don't care about it"... none, nada, nihil, nothing... > > > I didn't have OS/X, and you know how I'll be happy to have one, > so couldn't do anything to fix. > > >>Now I'm wondering... What would have happened if I reported >>the same bug for >>Tomcat 3.3? :) :) :) :) > > > Same problem that in 4.x and related question : > > - how many tomcat 3.3 developpers have access to OS/X ? > - how many tomcat 4.x developpers have access to OS/X ? > > if the bug is a security problem, at least on one platform, > it should be fixed and since you have access to such platform > you may provide the fix. > > There was fix for windows platform not so long from that > but it's clear that OS/X and AS/400 have a common problem > today, less users/developpers than Unix or Windows.... > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
