Aaron Mulder wrote:
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Stefan Schmidt wrote:
3. Maybe I understand this wrong, but isn't it possible to offer two M4
binary versions (one with Jetty perconfigured, and one with Tomcat)? The
new feature in M5 will then be that the user decides during installation
(izpack) which config he wants, so we don't need two binary versions
anymore... Maybe I got this wrongly, but if I got this right then I
don't understand this discussion :-).
It is possible for someone to get it working through "superhuman
effort". However, I don't think it's reasonable to require that anyone
who's working on testing the Tomcat build of M4 or packaging an M4 release
should go through that. Also, any two people who did will undoubtedly end
up with different results. Therefore, I don't think we should include a
Tomcat version of M4 based on the purely manual process.
What I meant was rather to just change the DD's and build the
modules/assembly again for (and then deliver this snapshot as binary) -
not to really separate the codebases as well ('superhuman effort'). This
way you would have one binary for Jetty and one for Tomcat (where the
only difference are the changed DD's - just like I did it yesterday
manually). Or did you refer to the commenting/uncommenting of the DD's
as 'superhuman effort'? :-)
IMHO, the biggest advantage to the change in HEAD is not that the
installer gives you more options, but that any developer can build Tomcat
with a simple command-line flag, which make it quite easy to work with and
test.
Aaron
