"Pier P. Fumagalli" wrote:
>
> Craig R. McClanahan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Thom Park wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> is there a tarbundle somewhere of the latest (circa-Tomcat 4-b6) web-app
> >> connector stuff anywhere?
> >
> > Will, it would have been there already if the person slated to do the work
> > (Pier) hadn't been broken into last night, with several PCs and a bunch of
> > other stuff stolen :-(.
>
> No, it would have been already there if I didn't forget to copy them to the
> WWW server after I rolled them today at the cops station :)
>
> They're up now, at
>
> <http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-tomcat-4.0/release/v4.0-b6/src>
>
> Sources only... Whoever tries to build them is more than welcome (meaning
> I'm going to shoot you if you don't) to tell so, report problems and so on.
>
> For B6, I didn't update the Makefiles for Win32, so, those still need to be
> fixed, but they should work on any platform where APR has been ported to.
>
> The APR version included is quite old, pre SMS (those who don't know what it
> is, SMS is a huge piece of code that was committed some weeks ago dealing
> with memory and so on, even though I trust David Reid and he told me it was
> OK, I'd rather bundle an older and more secure version, found to compile
> almost everywhere) and I'm planning to update to the more recent one after I
> hear what comes up with Apache 2.0b21 (shouldn't change anything, just some
> testing).
>
> It's not "yet" a "beta" as it doesn't include documentation (especially for
> the WARP protocol, and Jean Frederic will kill me if I don't write it - he's
> in France, much closer to me than you guys in California, and so way more
> scary :), and because there are still some WatchDog tests not working.
Well, I am leaving in Barcelona but I am french and I have been mountain biking
in the Pyreenees for the week-end.
Should I try to spend some time on the not (yet) working Watchdog tests will you
are arranging the spec's?
>
> Apart from all this bullshit, it's _way_ more stable than the previous one,
> the new protocol (WARP/0.9, getting close to 1.0 if this one proves
> satisfactory) holds much better than the previous one (in several tests I
> made, approximately 50000 hits, I never dropped the socket - whohooo!).
>
> So, have fun, try it out, and get me some feedback :)
>
> Cheers...
>
> Pier
