I don't know if you saw it, but Fedora ( the free Redhat distro ) includes now tomcat-4.1.27. I think this is a big problem and we should
Yes, I saw that FC 2 claims to bundle a lot of Java tools, including Tomcat.
be aware of it - the "tomcat" they distribute uses the worst layout, doesn't start like any other tomcat, it seem to run out of file descriptors about 900 requests - the list can go on.
Cool feature :/
They are using GCJ and native compilation - a very good thing IMO, however I think users will be very confused if they would use their "tomcat" and assume the real tomcat is as bad. Many people just use whatever is conveninetly included in a distribution, and few understand the distinction.
Yes. Well, it's the same problem for the kernel: IMO RH kernels are usually rather bad.
I don't know if you want to do something about it - Henri used to maintain RPMs for tomcat, maybe we should include links to them or the rpms themself in the distributions ( if you want tomcat RPM, please use this and not the hacked one in distributions ). The benefit will be that if a linux user has questions or problems - someone could tell them "look in $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/..." instead of "try to find where is the configuration file in your variation of tomcat".
That could be a solution.
Opinions ? I'm beginning to understand Sun's position on Java redistribution and open source ....
Well, I have to admit we would see a JDK with tons of custom patches in RH, probably causing random problems :( OTOH, it would work great for other distros (gentoo, debian, etc).
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