Hi, Why aren't my messages on this thread coming through? So strange. Anyways, what I said was JPackage.org is great, let's not duplicate their efforts ;)
Yoav Shapira Millennium Research Informatics >-----Original Message----- >From: Henri Gomez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 10:02 AM >To: Tomcat Developers List >Subject: Re: Fedora "tomcat" > >Costin Manolache a �crit : > >> Hi, >> >> 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 >> 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. >> >> 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. >> >> 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". > >I couldn't spend many time on TC or JPackage these days, but there is >discussion between Redhat and JPackage project (www.jpackage.org) to >use the allready done in JPackage (a RPM base distribution covering >major Java applications, libs and tools). > >I didn't know what they plan to use in fine but I suspect they'll try >to grab JPackage SOURCE rpms and make use of GCJ instead of Java. > >So I recommand to people who want RPM based Java stuff, like tomcat, >take a look at JPackage right now since the most up to date released >stuff is maintained there. > >Regards > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This e-mail, including any attachments, is a confidential business communication, and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary and/or privileged. This e-mail is intended only for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed, and may not be saved, copied, printed, disclosed or used by anyone else. If you are not the(an) intended recipient, please immediately delete this e-mail from your computer system and notify the sender. Thank you. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
