I never ment to start a flame war, so I will try to give short answer
and without deepen the topic.
On 12/26/06, Christopher Schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Leon,
Leon Rosenberg wrote:
Each day there are at least 2-3 people on the tomcat irc channel
claiming having problems with tomcat,
On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 18:13 +0100, Leon Rosenberg wrote:
Except that you'd have to download the dependant stuff in the
appropriate version and not just latest from head or release.
Sure so you could be downloading and using a version of a library with
bugs that have been fixed. Why live in the
Leon,
Leon Rosenberg wrote:
Each day there are at least 2-3 people on the tomcat irc channel
claiming having problems with tomcat, which results in using package
from a distro or gcj. Not all from gentoo though :-)
For the record (and from a Gentoo user), no Gentoo newbie is going to be
Ok, not even sure where to start so I will kinda just jump in with this.
I am not looking to start a flame war, or long thread. I would prefer
this thread not to grow beyond this post. As there are better places,
like Gentoo java mailing list, gentoo forums, irc, etc. In the Gentoo
Tomcat Guide[1]
Despite your request to the contrary, this very long winded message is
begging for responses. If all you wanted was for people with Gentoo
packaged tomcat to contact Gentoo user's list, you should have simply
requested that.
On to the comments ---
1. Compiling tomcat. Why??? Java by it's
David Smith wrote:
Despite your request to the contrary, this very long winded message is
begging for responses. If all you wanted was for people with Gentoo
packaged tomcat to contact Gentoo user's list, you should have simply
requested that.
On to the comments ---
1. Compiling tomcat.
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
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.
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
On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 20:24 +0100, Leon Rosenberg wrote:
Sorry, I don't buy it.
You don't have to. This is open source and about choice. Given all of
Tomcat's dependencies at compile time and runtime. If you want to stick
with older versions of stuff. That's totally up to you. But I would say
On 12/24/06, William L. Thomson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 20:24 +0100, Leon Rosenberg wrote:
Sorry, I don't buy it.
You don't have to. This is open source and about choice. Given all of
Tomcat's dependencies at compile time and runtime. If you want to stick
with older
William-
Just went to gentoo site and cant read the type (without a magnifying
glass)..apparently the font is cranked way down
Please advise
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On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 22:03 +0100, Leon Rosenberg wrote:
Well yes, but maybe this is for a reason, like it simply doesn't work
with another version?
Good point. If that is the case, we depend on an older version that does
work. And/or we report back to upstream with patches or etc so the
On 12/24/06, William L. Thomson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not to toot our own horn. But we really have allot of revolutionary
stuff going on in Gentoo with regard to Java.
With regard to Java, there is no implementation in the world like what
we have on Gentoo.
/ ...
and so much cool,
William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 18:32 -0500, Martin Gainty wrote:
William-
Just went to gentoo site and cant read the type (without a magnifying
glass)..apparently the font is cranked way down
No control over that sorry. But any browser should have the ability to
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