You're right, if you don't have the time to contribute patches or enhancements, you cannot expect anyone to care, since you are not paying for the job. A complaint does, however, point to areas of potential improvement, and wise developers will eventually listen to them, giving each the priority they desire. It's called feedback... ;-)
Snapping kills feedback, and without feedback you're pretty much in the dark. Gerardo Juarez On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Shapira, Yoav wrote: > > Hi, > I would point out a few things: > > - If you can't navigate from the jakarta.apache.org web site to the JK > download links (either source or binary), and must resort to Googling > for the download links, you probably shouldn't be installing and > configuring the connectors (or Tomcat, or Apache httpd) in the first > place ;) It's pretty simple to click on either the "Binaries" or > "Source" code links under the "Downloads" header on the left-hand side > of jakarta.apache.org, and then scroll down the page for whatever > product you want. If you don't feel like reading the page or scrolling > down, you can use ctrl+f to find "mod_jk" right away, no problem. > > - I get completely different Google results from what you report when I > search for mod_jk, with a number of how-to pages coming first. > > - If you don't have time to contribute any patches or enhancements, you > can definitely bitch and gripe but you can't expect anyone to care. All > of us also have jobs and don't get paid for making your life easier. > We'd love to evaluate and integrate any improvements you can come up > with, but naturally connector documentation has never been an area of > high interest to most tomcat developers. Moreover, as Tomcat as > maturing the importance of the connectors in general is going down IMHO, > with more and more standalone installations. > > Yoav Shapira > Millennium Research Informatics > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Greg Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 9:27 AM > >To: Tomcat Users List > >Subject: Re: Why is Tomcat/Connector Installation So Incredibly > Painful?? > > > >On 03 September 2004, Peter Alvin said: > >> But why is it so > >> incredibly painful to install Apache/Tomcat/Connector? It always > >> takes me about two days. I look forward to it as much as doing my > >> federal tax returns. > > > >I'm in complete agreement with you. Even finding the right files to > >download is a bit of a chore. ("OK, so everyone says I need mod_jk. > >Therefore I'm looking for a file called... > >jakarta-tomcat-connectors-jk-1.2.6-src.tar.gz. Riiiight. Well, at > >least they have two letters in common.) > > > >Here's an interesting experiment: google'ing for "mod_jk" finds this > >page: > > http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi > >as the second hit. But the string "mod_jk" occurs nowhere in that > page; > >you have to hunt around until you realize that what you're really > >looking for is "Tomcat Web Server Connectors". And then you only get > to > >the "binary releases" page, which is useless -- I need the source, > >dammit! > > > >Oh, the *first* Google hit for "mod_jk" is > > http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-3.3-doc/mod_jk-howto.html > >which I think most people who are working with Tomcat 4.1.x or 5.0.x > >would probably ignore based on the URL. > > > >Anyways, once you've downloaded the source (which I've already > forgotten > >how to do -- luckily I kept a local copy), you then have to figure out > >*what* to build in that tree and where to find it. Not obvious. And > >it's different from mod_jk to mod_jk2. And then getting things to > build > >is even less obvious. > > > >Alas, I don't have time to do anything more than bitch and gripe. > >Whoever is actually maintaining mod_jk, mod_jk2, and associated web > >pages, please hear our cries! > > > > Greg > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >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] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
