On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 23:04:43 -0800 (PST), Martin Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For recent builds of Struts, we have "officially" tested against Tomcat > 4.1.x and 5.0.x. Ostensibly, however, the build system supports Tomcat > 3.2.x, 3.3.x, 4.0.x, 4.1.x and 5.0.x. > > Since the trunk in SVN will become Struts 1.3, and we have (I believe) > decided that 1.3 will up the Servlet dependency to 2.3, we should be able > to jettison support for Tomcat 3.2.x and 3.3.x. >
+1 on jettisoning any pretense of testing these on the 1.3.x track. > Remaining questions: > > * Tomcat 4.0.x is no longer available from the Jakarta download page. Do > we still need to test and support this version? What does it mean to > stop supporting this version? > IMHO, 4.0.x is no longer relevant; 4.1.x is the only Servlet 2.3 based container we should worry about. We can remove any indications that we test on 4.0.x. > * Tomcat 5.5.x is the latest Tomcat version. I had thought that this was > the JDK 5.0 version of Tomcat, but the Tomcat web site doesn't seem to > say anything about this. Should we be testing against Tomcat 5.5.x? > Tomcat 5.5.x was numbered that way, IFRC, to conform to the basic notion that the major version on Tomcat was only incremented when the servlet spec level was incremented. That being said, 5.5 has fairly significant internal differences from 5.0, so one cannot assume that successful testing on one means implied success on the other. I think we need to test on both. > So, the question is: Which versions of Tomcat do we need to support? I'd > like to get our build system in tune with reality. ;-) > > My own suggestion: Support only 4.1.x, 5.0.x, 5.5.x. > Agreed, but I would put the priority order differently: 5.0.x, 5.5.x, then 4.1.x. > -- > Martin Cooper > Craig --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
