On Dec 2, 2009, at 11:51 AM, David Jencks wrote: > > On Dec 2, 2009, at 1:57 AM, Ivan wrote: > >> I am thinking whether there is maven plugin would help us to repackge the >> tomcat jar file to include our changes, so that we do not need to maintain >> the whole Tomcat source codes, maybe just need to keep a few files. > > AFAIK tomcat is not pushing trunk snapshots into any maven repo, so I think > we'd have to build tomcat ourselves anyway. Given that, I think that the > easiest way is to use the process for constructing a mavenized build. I'm > hoping we won't actually need to modify any files, at least not for long :-). > The first set of changes we needed that led me to set up the mavenized build > have been in tomcat trunk for years.
Right. So, if the motivation for this process is to make Tomcat SNAPSHOT's available in maven, I'm ok with this. I would not want to see this as a way of fixing functional/integration problems with Tomcat (at least not in the long-term). --kevan
