----- Original Message ----- From: "Remy Maucherat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 12:38 AM Subject: Re: [VOTE] minimal JSR 154 only distribution
> Jon Scott Stevens wrote: > > on 2002/12/11 5:06 PM, "Glenn Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Looking at the original vote I realize that what you ask can't be done. > >>Tomcat 4 is the RI of Servlet 2.3, JSR 154 is for Servlet 2.4. So it > >>isn't possible to create a JSR 154 only dist of Tomcat 4. > >> > >>Glenn > > > > > > Very good point. I withdrawal my vote. A new vote will need to be made for > > Tomcat 5. I will re-submit when I can also submit a patch for it. =) As soon > > as I'm over a Scarab deadline (Dec 20th), I'm going to work on this and it > > is going to turn into another similar Anakia-style deal. > > > > If you remember correctly, people -1'd Anakia all over the place until I > > went and actually built the website using it. Now, to this day, Anakia is > > still used for the Jakarta site (as well as the main www.apache.org site). > > > > So, for something that people said sucks so badly and is such a terrible > > idea, it has worked very well for quite a while now. =) The same will be > > true for my minimal distribution idea. > > This is not getting anywhere. > > Actually, what you want is not a distribution for end users, but rather > a distribution for people embedding Tomcat (like, say, for Cocoon, > Slide, Scarab). > If this packaging is clearly labelled as such, then I could live with > it, as it will not confuse users (except those who can't read). Urm, err, the users that can't read may include you ;-). Jon withdrew the vote above. This means that this is officially 'not getting anywhere', at least until Jon re-submits his re-worked proposal. > > Other than that, I think having one and only one user oriented > distribution (the implementation I favor for that one is with jboss-like > profiles) should be a requirement. > > Remy > > > -- > 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]>
