André Warnier wrote: > Mark Thomas wrote: >> Caldarale, Charles R wrote: > [...] >>> I'm not privy to the thought processes behind the packaging of the >>> .exe and .zip downloads, but I don't like it, whatever it was. I >>> think all bits and pieces should be in all the packages. The .exe >>> installer could be made smart enough to detect the platform and JVM >>> it's running on, and choose the 32- or 64-bit service wrapper as >>> appropriate. The service.bat script would probably have to use a >>> command line option to select 32- or 64-bit, but that's way better >>> than the current state of affairs. >> >> Patches are always welcome ;) >> > One would have to find things first in order to patch them. ;-) > > Seriously, on the same principle as eating an elephant but tiny bits at > a time, is there something that militates against adding the various > tomcat.exe and tomcatw.exe to the zip distribution ?
Not at all. I'm more than happy to add them to the Tomcat 7 build, get it working and then propose a port to 6.0.x and possibly earlier versions. Option 1: Wait for me (or another committer) to find the time to do this and continue to complain that it isn't so until once of us does. Option 2: Write a patch for the build script, service.bat and the windows installer to do this. I'll accept patching the windows installer is a little tricky but the others should be trivial. If someone wants to take a crack at doing this I'll willingly give them all the help they need if they pop over to the dev list. > I'm willing to write a HowTo for Windows in the FAQ, but having in > addition to direct people to these external links seems a bit > extra-confusing. Agreed. I'd rather get this fixed than document a workaround. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
