Re: Tomcat (re-)packaging, relocation etc..

2009-05-14 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, André Warnier wrote: I wonder if it is not time to make peace on this issue and maybe trying to find a reasonable middle ground. As someone who has previously worked on Debian's packaging of Tomcat (though not very recently), I think it would

Tomcat (re-)packaging, relocation etc..

2009-05-12 Thread André Warnier
Hi. Picking up on a recent (mild) comment on this list : quote Note that relocating everything means that when posting your users post questions to this mailing list we're likely to say who's the idiot that scattered all the directories all over the place? try downloading a fresh version of

Re: Tomcat (re-)packaging, relocation etc..

2009-05-12 Thread David Smith
I think the real problem is in third party repackages that have a tendency to treat .jar files like any native binary library. The jar is placed somewhere and then three or four different symlinks get chained together to make it show up in all the places it's needed. I know why they do it --

Re: Tomcat (re-)packaging, relocation etc..

2009-05-12 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 André, On 5/12/2009 7:39 AM, André Warnier wrote: I wonder if it is not time to make peace on this issue and maybe trying to find a reasonable middle ground. An installation of the complete official Tomcat under /usr/local/tomcatx.y, including