Craig R. McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Jon Scott Stevens wrote:
>
>> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:56:40 -0700
>> From: Jon Scott Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Reply-To: Tomcat Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: tomcat-dev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: Missed vote
>>
>> Arg. I missed the vote where the Servlet API and JSP classes were going to
>> be stored in the same repo. Is there any way that I can -1 that after the
>> fact?
>>
>> Several of us have worked hard over the years to completely separate the
>> Servlet API from the JSP API for various valid reasons (including the fact
>> that some of us don't like JSP).
>>
>> This fight came to an end when Sun decided to create separation of the two
>> API's by having separate JSR's. Now, it seems that we are moving backwards
>> again by having the two API's stored in the same repo and now that I found
>> out that that has happened, I would love to try to stop it from going any
>> further.
>>
>> What can we do here?
>
> What's so painful about a ten-line build.xml target that creates a
> separate JAR file with just the javax.servlet and javax.servlet.http API
> classes, if that's what you need?
>
> Sharing a CVS repository has little or nothing to do with how many
> distributable outputs you create. On the other hand, having both servlet
> and JSP APIs in a single JAR file is quite useful to a very large number
> of existing Tomcat (and other container) users, so it should be available
> also.
Logically it's more confusing to see servlet.jar to have both. Especially
now that they are _two_ separate JSRs. Two APIs, IMO, two JARs, but as I
replied earlier, it's not my problem anymore.
Pier
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