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.
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