Re: [OT] Re: WebDAV and TC5

[Jess Holle]

Shapira, Yoav wrote:

Howdy,

 

I don't think small market shares or lack of clients is a reason for
exclude
a server feature. They are separate. If the WebDAV app added some
   

negative
 

impact to the tomcat server, then take it out, but if not, then lets
   

add it
 

back in.
   

Even if WebDAV is useful in the general sense (I tend to agree with
Senor Holle that it's not, I don't feel strongly either way), I think
it's telling that no one complained when we removed it.  Anything we add
that's not used is bloat by definition, and more for us to maintain.
Of course, we already do have a WebDAV servlet shipping with tomcat5,
and that's the main part.  What else did you (Mark T.) think of adding
to the distribution?
This gets me thinking again of the idea of a minimal build: no webdav,
no CGI, no examples, no docs, no balancer, minimal server.xml as the
default, etc, so as to minimize download size and cater to those users
who know what they're doing and just want to drop their webapp into
tomcat.
 

Jakarta could have a minimal Tomcat binary + a set of standard Jakarta 
add-on web-apps.  Add a "standard web app catalog viewer" to Tomcat and 
you're set.  Right?

[At that point Tomcat would be kind of like what NetBeans tries to be in 
this regard, which is pretty nice -- all other aspects of NetBeans aside.]

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Jess Holle