Don't flame, remember it's Christmas. Recompiling Java apps isn't strictly necessary but from a maintainer point of view it makes sense: they want to assure that the distribution they provide is as complete and workable as possible. That includes the ability to build, patch, integrate any software cohesively with all the other packages. Eg: at work I've seen CRM software that bundles it's own JBoss tree and there's no way in hell it'll integrate with an "external" instance; given your pov it's all right and sound but for me, as a sysadmin, it sucks as I have to accept and track yet another exception to my architectural plan. There's space for bytecode consumers and for source builders, the point is that both should be taken care for; especially if the latter help keeping in touch with the userbase working with your wares.
2006/12/24, Leon Rosenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On 12/24/06, William L. Thomson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ask and you shall be answered in detail :) > > On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 11:20 -0500, David Smith wrote: > > > 1. Compiling tomcat. Why??? > > Because it's FOSS why not? I might want to use a newer version of things > Tomcat is compiled against. There are tons of reasons, thus the link I > provided before. Here it is again for reference. > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/why-build-from-source.xml Sorry, I don't buy it. The only valid reason to rebuild tomcat (or other java programs / packages) is to patch them, and if I'd wish to do it, I would go to the svn of the maintainer and not play around with probably broken distribution packages (and yes, they ARE all broken, gento, suse, debian, ubuntu). I think you would spare your users tons of problems if you would just re-distribute the binaries from tomcat.apache.org and not mess around with things. Noone who runs tomcat for professional reasons can allow the os to do atomatic updates on it, and what is the other reason for packaging? And for the newbies the binaries tomcat.apache.org provides are perfect (at least they work!). Btw, when we are on it, can you please remove gcj from the distro? This thing is really just annoying! :-) regards Leon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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