Hi.
This being the start of the Easter week-end, business being slow, having
walked 3 times around the block and drunk 10 cups of coffee already, and
having exhausted the mailing list, I decided to jump in and at least
have a go at doing something else than filing complaints about Tomcat
and Java on this list.
So I browsed to
http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/miscellaneous/doccontrib.html
and started to read and follow the instructions.
Mind you, I am not a Tomcat nor a Java expert, but I figure I can read
and write, so I might occasionally find a spelling mistake in the
on-line docs and thus contribute my bit. Also, I met all these nice
guys at the latest ApacheCON, and most of them had a badge with
different colored stripes on it, and were thus much admired by the girls
(of which there were only about three or so, mine included).
Anyway, I figured this might at least be a cheap way to get a discount
next time.
To further set the stage : my laptop is not of the white slim flashy
fruity variety which most of these guru guys sport, and it only runs
Windows XP; but it's a nice working-horse kind of laptop, which has
served me well for a couple of years now. It has 2 GB of RAM and still
about 100 GB to spare on the disk. So why not, he ?
With a bit of apprehension, I downloaded and installed Ant. That went
well, except that when trying it out, it complained about not finding a
"tools.jar". But I quickly figured that one out.
Then I did the next thing in the page above (I already use SVN and
Tortoise SVN, so that was a no-brainer).
The next thing is thus :
svn checkout http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/connectors/
tomcat-connectors
That started great, finding stuff as advertised and starting to create
all these directories full of java and xml and c thingies.
After about 10 minutes of this, and seeing things scroll in the window
like "Tomcat_4.1.2", I started wondering about how much stuff I was
downloading. A quick inspection showed me that we were at something
like 700 MB and 50,000 files.
Wow, and this is only the Tomcat Connectors ! These guys are even more
impressive than I thought !
10 minutes later, we were at 1.5 GB and about 100,000 directories, but
it was still going nicely. I was now seeing things that I never knew
existed, such as Tomcat_native.x.y etc..
10 minutes later, we were at 2.2 Gb, and still going, but with some hiccups.
10 minutes later, a strange message appeared in the command window,
telling me that my OS did not have enough resources available to execute
the current service.
At the same time, my laptop pretty much froze.
There were still some faint desparate noises to be heard still from the
disk drive, as if it was weakly and frantically trying to put away some
stuff before giving up entirely.
After waiting for a while and trying to provide moral encouragement to
my laptop, it finally got to the point where even CTRL-ALT-DEL did not
elicit any reaction anymore. I thus had to press the power button and
switch my laptop off brutally.
This later cost me about an hour of disk checking, after which it seemed
fortunately that everything was back in order again. Seems these MS
guys have learned some things over time after all.
Now I am left with an SVN/tomcat-connectors directory, containing some
2.8 GB worth of files, apparently stopping at
C:\develop\06_SVN\tomcat-connectors\trunk\util\loader\org\apache\tomcat\util\loader
So I don't know if I should redo the whole svn checkout, or an update,
or what ?
Oh, and another thing : having read the instructions beforehand, I
wanted to contribute at least a note warning potential contributors of
the above, and I wanted to do this in the approved way.
So I cliked on the link at the bottom of the page :
Bugzilla Bug Writing Guide
which leads to
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/bugwritinghelp.html
which leads to
Not Found
The requested URL /bugzilla/bugwritinghelp.html was not found on this
server.
Apache/2.2.8 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.8 OpenSSL/0.9.8e Server at
issues.apache.org Port 80
Are the Tomcat developers trying to tell us something there (like, don't) ?
:-)
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