Re: Tomcat Version Numbers

2010-08-25 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck, On 8/20/2010 12:36 PM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] Subject: Tomcat Version Numbers What was the first version of TC 6.0 that was considered stable? Looks like 6.0.1 was the

Re: Tomcat Version Numbers

2010-08-25 Thread Peter Crowther
On 25 August 2010 15:23, Christopher Schultz ch...@christopherschultz.netwrote: Again, this is partly because I feel a certain sense of order which requires releases to be X.0.0. Why? And by release do you mean stable, production-quality releases that we'll stake our reputations on (in which

Re: Tomcat Version Numbers

2010-08-25 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter, On 8/25/2010 10:30 AM, Peter Crowther wrote: On 25 August 2010 15:23, Christopher Schultz ch...@christopherschultz.netwrote: Again, this is partly because I feel a certain sense of order which requires releases to be X.0.0. Why? And

RE: Tomcat Version Numbers

2010-08-25 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] Subject: Re: Tomcat Version Numbers there's a 6.0.0-alpha, and then a 6.0.0, unqualified. Does that mean that 6.0.0 was stable -- at least after the alpha stage? Yes. (I missed the unmarked 6.0.0 leg.) why was 6.0.2

Re: Tomcat Version Numbers

2010-08-25 Thread Mark Thomas
On 25/08/2010 16:23, Christopher Schultz wrote: For those who never read http://tomcat.apache.org/whichversion.html, or don't understand it (btw: that page says 7.0.0 is the current version of the 7.0.x versions), downloading the highest version number available (7.0.2) might not be such a

Re: Tomcat Version Numbers

2010-08-25 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck, On 8/25/2010 11:15 AM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] Subject: Re: Tomcat Version Numbers why not have a tag progression that looks like this: 6.0.0-alpha 6.0.0-beta1

RE: Tomcat Version Numbers

2010-08-25 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] Subject: Re: Tomcat Version Numbers Okay. Does that mean that: [DIR] v6.0.2-alpha/ 2006-11-16 00:02- [DIR] v6.0.2-beta/2006-11-16 00:02- [DIR] v6.0.2/ 2006-11-16 00:02

Re: Tomcat Version Numbers

2010-08-25 Thread Rainer Jung
On 25.08.2010 20:57, Christopher Schultz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck, On 8/25/2010 11:15 AM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] Subject: Re: Tomcat Version Numbers why not have a tag progression

Re: Tomcat Version Numbers

2010-08-22 Thread Mark Thomas
On 20/08/2010 17:36, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: Given that, there's no telling which 7.0 version will be the first stable one, right? Mark seems to be close to recommending stable, but yes, there's no telling. Ultimately it is a community decision. The more folks that use the betas and

RE: Tomcat Version Numbers

2010-08-20 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] Subject: Tomcat Version Numbers Will the TC 7.x versions numbers increase like 7.0.3, 7.0.4, and then at some point it will be considered stable? Yes. That sounds like Tomcat 7.0.0 is not actually a release version, right?

Re: Tomcat Version Numbers

2010-08-20 Thread Len Popp
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:26, Christopher Schultz ch...@christopherschultz.net wrote: It's not that I don't get it... it's that I have a deep-seated need for the release version to be called 7.0.0 for some reason. Call me cynical, but I naturally assume that a major new version will have more

Re: Tomcat Version Numbers

2010-08-20 Thread André Warnier
Len Popp wrote: On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:26, Christopher Schultz ch...@christopherschultz.net wrote: It's not that I don't get it... it's that I have a deep-seated need for the release version to be called 7.0.0 for some reason. Call me cynical, but I naturally assume that a major new