While jakarta-servletapi-4.0 and TC4.0 builds are being re-developed, could
we please *stop* them creating directories higher in the hierarchy than
their own root? ie
/jakarta-tomcat/ shouldn't then create ../build/ - it's not nice!
Just my 2p worth ;-)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon S. Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 14 December 2000 9:13 pm
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] building is easy (was: Re:
> [tomcat-4.0] building
> is hard)
>
>
> >
> > Jon Stevens wrote:
> > >
> > > If the above files do not exist, then attempt to look
> > > for relative paths (ie: ../../jakarta-servletapi) to
> > > the .jar files here:
> > >
> > > /jakarta-servletapi
> > > /jsse*
> > > /jmx*
> >
> > It is not clear to me why property files with reasonable
> defaults are
> > "easy" whereas environment variables with the same defaults
> are "hard". It
> > seems to me that the key discussion is what are reasonable defaults.
> > Whatever.
>
> Try fitting the current model of building Tomcat into
> relative paths and
> you will see. It wasn't clear to me until I started hacking at it.
>
> > More substantially, I'm troubled by thoses asterisks, and I
> have a similar
> > problem with jakarta-servletapi. I routinely have multiple
> copies of
> > various products on my system. One case in point is
> jakarta-servletapi as
> > I routinely build both tomcat3 and tomcat4. To enable
> this, I have two
> > copies of servletapi, one named jakarta-servletapi-4.0.
> Clearly this can
> > be addressed via a properties file, I just want to be sure
> that the build
> > system doesn't do me a "favor" by tossing in additional,
> randomly selected
> > things into my path without warning.
>
> Knowing where the problem is is key. In this case, I would
> propose that
> the build for jakarta-servletapi is badly broken in that you can't
> currently (by default) have multiple versions of it in your /build and
> /dist directory at the same time.
>
> I would say that the servlet api build process should be "fixed" to
> build/install into directories with the version number attached.
>
> /build/jakarta-tomcat-4.0
> /build/jakarta-tomcat-3.2
> /build/jakarta-ant-1.2
> /build/jakarta-ant-1.3
> /build/servletapi-2.2
> /build/servletapi-2.3
> /dist/servletapi-2.2
> /dist/servletapi-2.3
> /jakarta-tomcat-4.0
> /jakarta-tomcat-3.2
> /jakarta-ant-1.2
> /jsse-1.0.1
>
> This builds in the promise that things won't get confused.
>
> Clarity: The first / is relative to whatever directory things are put
> into, not your / on your disk.
>
> -jon
>
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