On 27/11/2018 08:47, André Warnier (tomcat) wrote:
> On 27.11.2018 01:49, Christopher Schultz wrote:

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>> Hmm... just realized that the service.bat file might not be included
>> in the "installer" bundle. You might have to grab the ZIP bundle from
>> the Tomcat downloads site to get those scripts.
>>
>> - -chris
> 
> This may be the right moment to suggest that this (these ?) ZIP
> bundle(s) could be included by default, when running the installer (not
> unpacked, just copied along and dropped somewhere).  For as long as I
> can remember (which is getting somewhat shorter these days, but still
> goes back to tomcat 4.x), this has been an issue which regularly crops
> up with the Windows versions : whenever something goes wrong, people are
> being referred to files that they do not have, and it always takes a
> while to explain, download etc..
> It would be easier if the files were already there anyway.
> In the past, there may have been a concern for the extra size of the
> download (nowadays about 11 MB for each 32/64 bit version), but compared
> to many other downloads nowadays, this is still quite reasonable.
> (And in fact, there are many common files, so not everything would have
> to be downloaded.  Also the 32-bit version is less useful these days.)

https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56323

It wasn't back-ported to 7.0.x. I'm not aware of of causing issues in
8.5.x or 9.0.x so it could be back-ported.

Mark

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