Bill Barker wrote: [...]people want most from Tomcat 5 is a Servlet 2.4/JSP 2.0 container.
There are only bad solutions here:
- wait for an unspecified, and possibly long, amount of time, sitting on a finished product
- backport patches (we probably don't have the resources, and destabilizing 4.1 would be bad; we'd have to use a new 4.2 branch)
- branch a new 4.2 based on the current 5.0, and remove features (IMO it doesn't make any sense, plus that would destabilize the codebase - a bit less than the previous option, however -, and run into a similar resources issues)
If the first option is chosen, I will go work on other stuff (at JBoss) while the project stays idle (chômage technique, as we say in French).
As you all know: no stable release = no testers = no bugs = nothing to fix :-(
I'm pretty sure that if you release a TC 5 Beta, you will get quite a few people to test it, and unless it's already perfect, they will find bugs.
I don't know more than you do about when J2EE 1.4 will be released, but the specs are starting to move through final approval now, so I'm pretty sure it will happen in a month or two. Three months for running a few Beta releases instead of releasing it as something it's not doesn't seem to bad to me ...
I don't have any time to dedicate to either of the other two options, as I have neither motivation nor need for such a product. Sorry :-(
Sure, I understand how you feel and no one can force you to work on it, of course, but I hope you do even if it's just Beta for another few months.
So I think we're stuck :-(
I hope not.
Hans -- Hans Bergsten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gefion Software <http://www.gefionsoftware.com/> Author of O'Reilly's "JavaServer Pages", covering JSP 1.2 and JSTL 1.0 Details at <http://TheJSPBook.com/>
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