Remy Maucherat wrote: > No, sorry, I don't like the whole idea. We also have some work left to > do to split the main Catalina JAR. I'm quite happy with the current > distributions overall, and users apparently are also.
The current distribution remains - I'm just proposing to also distribute individual .jars. We could also start distributing the individual .wars. Tomcat source are already very componentized - utils, coyote, jasper, catalina, jk, http, webapps. Each of those can be used in other containers, and we have relatively stable APIs. I think this is very good - and we should plan on switching to micro-releases of individual components. The current release cycle and complexity is too big IMHO. > I would also like the version number to be in the directory (ie, not all > releases coexist in the same dir). I would like version number in the directory - but that's what we have in the current dist/ layout. It's much easier to just use what we have and build from it. I don't like version number in jar - at least not for runtime. Having the version in dir and the simple .jar name is clearly better for this use case. But my proposal is in the middle - the distributed jars can be downloaded with both version number or without. If you want a specific version and you want to use the non-versioned name at runtime - just rename or specifiy an unversioned name as target. In the end it really doesn't matter where the version number sits - it has to be somewhere, and we can control the name of the downloaded jar. BTW, the goals of this are: 1. Increase the "componentization" of tomcat. In future we may be able to get to more incremental and simpler releases of individual components. 2. Simpler downloads for people who use only parts of tomcat, and simpler downloads for us if commons components we use are available as .jars. 3. Maybe we'll be able to support an "upgrade" feature, or patch releases For example, if a bug is found in jasper we can build&test against the latest stable release and distribute only the fixed jasper, without having to do a full release of tomcat. ( that would be more important for 5.0, since 4.1.x is mostly "stable" and less likely to change ). Costin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
