Dave Pawson wrote:
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I tried the Fedora install (instead of the Main Tomcat one).
It's horribly complex. Installs all over the machine,
Is missing the manager app and the docs.
Yuk.
That will be music to the ears of some; can't wait for their comments.
As for me, I'm glad to hear that it is not only the Tomcat Debian
packager that has a great imagination.
Just a few points though in defense of the packagers, a much-criticised
group (to which I do not belong by the way) :
- like the Tomcat people, they are working for free, in a spirit of
helping other people
- what they do allows one to install a package (any package), mainly by
typing "xxxx install package-name", and generally it works right out of
the box.
- they try to follow the usual conventions of the platform for which
they do it, which does not necessarily please the original package
developers, but pleases the sysadmins no end, because one then finds the
same kind of files in the same usual places (configuration files,
logfiles, start/stop scripts etc..), without having to scour the whole
system to find them
- they also try to respect the filesystem conventions as to where one
puts things that get written to or not, permissions and so on
- they do not generally "break things", they just sometimes tend to
spread out the files and use a lot of links, which is a bit confusing at
first.
About the missing pieces, I'm sure that the Tomcat Manager and the
Tomcat doc are also available, in their own Fedora package.
The packagers split them off, because they thought (probably
justifiably) that many people installing Tomcat on real-world servers
did not necessarily need them.
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