On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Christopher Cain wrote:
> Since there is an active discussion about the Tomcat site itself,
> implying that someone may be about to do a little work on it,
That's a correct supposition. I'm planning on spending quite a bit of
time working on the developer docs (while others have volunteered to focus
on the user stuff). To that end, I wanted to use Ant's <style> tag with a
global XSLT stylesheet that can be shared across projects (and is now
checked in to jakarta-site2).
> I have a
> simple suggestion. It would be a nice convenience if there were a new
> section on the download page, maybe under a separate one of those
> grayish-blue heading bars (entitled "Software Prerequisites" or
> something), with a list of links to all of the various external packages
> that Tomcat requires ... maybe with subsections of "Common" for packages
> required by both 3.x and 4.0, "Additional for 3.x", "Additional for
> 4.x", and "Optional" for packages required by the optional components of
> the either/both containers.
>
That's a good idea. I'm just about to check in some updates to the
instructions for building Tomcat 4 from sources (including all the
dependencies). I'll make sure it ends up on the web site as well
(eventually).
Craig
