[arch-dev-public] Update tomcat from 5.5 to 6.0?
Hi everyone, User servernyc (gmail) flagged extra/tomcat as out-of-date and asked: "where is tomcat 6? any reason for 5.5 still?" I unflagged it as our tomcat package is currently from the 5.5 branch and is up to date on its branch but still his question is relevant. I think it is high time to make the move. Both branches 5.5 [0] and 6 [1] are widely used and considered stable. (I am currently working on both tomcat 5.5 and tomcat 6.0 packages built from source with dependencies extracted) So the feature request is "Update tomcat from 5.5 to 6.0". Has anyone got something against it? If no-one has, how to proceed regarding package names? - Rename "tomcat" to "tomcat5"? (careful because the 5.0 branch existed [2]) OR - Rename "tomcat" to "tomcat5.5"? AND - Use "tomcat" for 6.0 branch? OR - Create "tomcat6" for 6.0 branch? [0] http://tomcat.apache.org/download-55.cgi [1] http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi [2] http://archive.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-5/ -- Guillaume
On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 20:48 +0100, Guillaume ALAUX wrote:
Hi everyone,
User servernyc (gmail) flagged extra/tomcat as out-of-date and asked: "where is tomcat 6? any reason for 5.5 still?"
I unflagged it as our tomcat package is currently from the 5.5 branch and is up to date on its branch but still his question is relevant. I think it is high time to make the move. Both branches 5.5 [0] and 6 [1] are widely used and considered stable.
(I am currently working on both tomcat 5.5 and tomcat 6.0 packages built from source with dependencies extracted)
So the feature request is "Update tomcat from 5.5 to 6.0". Has anyone got something against it? If no-one has, how to proceed regarding package names?
- Rename "tomcat" to "tomcat5"? (careful because the 5.0 branch existed [2]) OR - Rename "tomcat" to "tomcat5.5"?
AND - Use "tomcat" for 6.0 branch? OR - Create "tomcat6" for 6.0 branch?
[0] http://tomcat.apache.org/download-55.cgi [1] http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi [2] http://archive.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-5/
-- Guillaume
Forgot to link the bugtracker issue I opened in that intention: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/22424 -- Guillaume
2011/1/14 Guillaume ALAUX <guillaume@archlinux.org>:
So the feature request is "Update tomcat from 5.5 to 6.0". Has anyone got something against it? If no-one has, how to proceed regarding package names?
- Rename "tomcat" to "tomcat5"? (careful because the 5.0 branch existed [2]) OR - Rename "tomcat" to "tomcat5.5"?
+1 for this and drop 5.0 branch (which is kinda old) and rename actual tomcat to tomcat5 and tomcat 6 will be `tomcat` -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Arch Linux Developer / Trusted User Linux Counter: #359909 http://www.angvp.com
On 01/14/2011 09:53 PM, Ángel Velásquez wrote:
2011/1/14 Guillaume ALAUX<guillaume@archlinux.org>:
So the feature request is "Update tomcat from 5.5 to 6.0". Has anyone got something against it? If no-one has, how to proceed regarding package names?
- Rename "tomcat" to "tomcat5"? (careful because the 5.0 branch existed [2]) OR - Rename "tomcat" to "tomcat5.5"?
+1 for this and drop 5.0 branch (which is kinda old) and rename actual tomcat to tomcat5 and tomcat 6 will be `tomcat`
i'm for this situation too. just update tomcat to he newest stable version and drop the old stable. -- Ionuț
On 2011/1/14 Ionuț Bîru <ibiru@archlinux.org>wrote :
i'm for this situation too. just update tomcat to he newest stable version and drop the old stable.
Then I fear we actually have to package Tomcat 7, not Tomcat 6. -- Rémy.
On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 10:54 +0100, Rémy Oudompheng wrote:
On 2011/1/14 Ionuț Bîru <ibiru@archlinux.org>wrote :
i'm for this situation too. just update tomcat to he newest stable version and drop the old stable.
Then I fear we actually have to package Tomcat 7, not Tomcat 6.
Well actually Tomcat doesn't use the usual versionning scheme. ie version n doesn't deprecate version n-1. Instead each version is the implementation of a version of the Servlet/JSP specifications. The Tomcat team provides this table: http://tomcat.apache.org/whichversion.html Users can refer to it when trying to figure out which Tomcat version they should use depending on the Servlet/JSP their webapp uses. That is why you won't find any upstream info on which tomcat version is the stable one that should be used in any case. FYI the first "stable" Tomcat 7 version (7.0.6) went out 3 days ago ("stable" here means the dev team didn't call it "-beta" nor "-alpha"): http://archive.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-7/ This is also why I would be in favor of keeping tomcat 5.5 in an official repo. What about Tomcat 7? -- Guillaume
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Guillaume ALAUX
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Ionuț Bîru
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Rémy Oudompheng
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Ángel Velásquez