On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 00:08:30 -0500, Jacob Kjome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 09:37 AM 10/7/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>  >
>  >Hi,
>  >Looking at the left-overs from my 5.5.3 build directory, it could be
>  >that I had a misconfigured build that resulted in the tomcat5.exe and
>  >tomcat5w.exe missing from the .zip.  I'll have to double-check, but it
>  >could be that what I said below is wrong in practice (though still
>  >correct in spirit).  So I guess hold on for 5.5.4 is the message anyhow
>  >;)
>  >
> 
> Hmm...   I avoid the .exe installer like the plague.  I like being able to
> simply extract Tomcat to a directory and run it.  I want to have full
> control over what it does to my system.  I don't want a .exe installer
> adding registry entries behind my back.  The .zip file is fine as it is.  I
> understand leaving out xercesImpl.jar and xml-apis.jar since the JDK comes
> with an XML parser.  That's fine.  But the JDK doesn't come with
> tomcat5.exe and tomcat5w.exe.  I can see the .tar.gz distribution not
> containing those two files since it is more meant for non-windows
> boxes.  But the .zip dist is meant for windows boxes and I will never,
> ever, use the .exe installer.  I don't see the benefit in removing the .exe
> files.  Why worry about dist file size when bandwidth is getting cheaper
> and cheaper by the day?  Ok, if this saved 10 meg, I could see it, but this
> is hardly worth worrying about.  Please leave them in the .zip distribution
> for 5.5.4 and beyond.

-1 from me.

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