RE: Jakarta - A study in self defeating projects

2004-10-18 Thread Shapira, Yoav
Hi, >simple out of box ). As a solution - I started on an Ant task >that would just create the rpm file from the distribution files, without >using a .spec and all the special steps ( just like the windows >installer does ). That sounds like a good approach. If you or someone else would do th

Re: Jakarta - A study in self defeating projects

2004-10-18 Thread Costin Manolache
Shapira, Yoav wrote: Hi, The folks at JPackage.org already track several Jakarta projects and issue RPMs for them: for example, they've been doing this with Tomcat for a long time. We appreciate their work. We've spoken on the tomcat-dev list about issuing our own RPMs, and I think it was Costin

[ANN] Apache Jakarta Tomcat 5.5.3 now Beta

2004-10-18 Thread Shapira, Yoav
The Apache Jakarta Tomcat team is proud to announce that after prolonged testing internally and externally, the 5.5.3 release is now labeled a Beta release. That means it's more stable and mature than previous Alpha releases on the Tomcat 5.5 branch, and we encourage more users to download and te