Hello Andrew.
I think your idea is one of possible choices and
does not beat you.
Best regards.
Andrew McIntyre wrote:
On 10/18/06, Andrew McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 10/18/06, Bryan Pendleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Now I'm thinking to include tomcat5.exe into derby as derby.exe as
> > resolution for DERBY-187.
>
> Are the following two statements true?
>
> 1) This derby.exe program would be useful to Windows users, not to
other users
Correct, since tomcat5.exe is just a renamed procrun/prunsrv from the
Jakarta Commons Daemon project.
While I don't see any problem with Derby redistributing procrun, I
don't think we necessarily need to be redistributing it either. It
would be sufficient to provide a pointer to the commons daemon project
and instructions in our documentation for those that want this
functionality.
But, since you can't actually get procrun as a Windows executable
anywhere that I could find from the links at
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/daemon/index.html, I suppose
redistributing it is probably the best way of providing this
functionality for users.
Maybe there's some reason why they don't redistribute their own code
in binary form? I find it sort of odd, but I haven't gone to look for
the reasons yet.
If it were possible to download procrun as a binary from the Commons
Daemon project, I would prefer that users pick it up from there, and
we could provide Derby-specific instructions on using it with the
network server.
It's been a while but I finally got around to looking into it. It
appears even the commons-dev folks don't have any forthcoming answers
as to why there's no Win32 download for the Commons Daemon:
http://www.nabble.com/-daemon--Re%3A-Obtaining-procrun-for-Win32-tf2558402.html#a7129565
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/jakarta-commons-user/200606.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think at this point it should be sufficient to point users to the
Tomcat distributions and provide some basic instructions on how to
extract, rename, and configure tomcat5.exe to run the network server
as a service on Windows. These instructions could be added to the FAQ
and/or the wiki and then DERBY-187 can be closed.
I'll add this comment to DERBY-187 and will put it on my list to add
to the FAQ unless someone beats me to it.
andrew
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