Remy Maucherat wrote: > Hi all, > > Before starting to release 5.0.x milestones, I would like to propose > having only one distribution for Tomcat 5.0.x, and standardize on what > the LE distribution contains (so well, it's more the other distribution > which gets removed). > > It has some advantages: > - it is slightly smaller (less these days now that the XML parser has to > be shipped again with Tomcat) > - runs as-is on JDK 1.3 (because of the Xerces inclusion) > - 99% Apache or Apache-style licence (the JDBC 2 standard extension is > needed for JDK 1.3 DataSource support :-() > - less user confusion > > The main "problem" is that the user will need additional downloads for > some of the more advanced features, and the package will also not run on > JDK 1.2 as is (but from what I've seen, JDK 1.2 compatibility may not be > a priority for developers). > > <ballot> > +1 [ ] Yes, remove the LE distribution > -1 [ ] No, keep both distributions > </ballot>
I'm OK till we could add easily missing stuff to make Tomcat 5.0 works. It's exactly what we does in jpackage.org project in our 'strict' distribution. There is 3 set of distro for Tomcat 4.1.12 RPMS : - One is the full distro, including everything, so it's the same that jakarta-tomcat-4.1.12.tar.gz - Second one is the LE distro, ie without XML parser, JDBC-STDEXT, ACTIVATION, JTA, MAIL, JAAS, JNDI. In this case at install time, rpm install via symlink XML stuff (parser/apis) from a known location (/usr/share/java). The other components activation, mail, jdbc-stdext, jaas and jndi should be installed by users. - In the strict mode, only tomcat jars, ie all jars (including jakarta-commons-*, servlet.jar, mx4j), should be present at rpm install time and will be automatically installed via symlink in tomcat directories. So I'm fine with having a single tomcat distribution, if we explains users WHERE it could find the missing jars. And having a Tomcat 5.0 containing only 100% OSS stuffs seems natural for an ASF project. BTW, support should be added in TC 5.0 to detect missing jars, ie JDBC-EXT, JNDI, JAAS, and automatically (with reports log) remove functionalities. Regards -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
