Howdy,
I don't think small market shares or lack of clients is a reason for exclude a server feature. They are separate. If the WebDAV app added some
negative
impact to the tomcat server, then take it out, but if not, then lets
add it
back in.
Even if WebDAV is useful in the general sense (I tend to agree with Senor Holle that it's not, I don't feel strongly either way), I think it's telling that no one complained when we removed it. Anything we add that's not used is bloat by definition, and more for us to maintain.
We didn't remove it. That webapp wasn't serving any useful purpose.
Of course, we already do have a WebDAV servlet shipping with tomcat5, and that's the main part. What else did you (Mark T.) think of adding to the distribution?
And I'm glad it's being maintained again.
This gets me thinking again of the idea of a minimal build: no webdav, no CGI, no examples, no docs, no balancer, minimal server.xml as the default, etc, so as to minimize download size and cater to those users who know what they're doing and just want to drop their webapp into tomcat.
Yes, but soon you're going to pitch a HTTP-server-in-100k, complete with its own proprietary API ;)
The embedded distribution is IMO good for a minimal distribution.
Rémy
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