From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FoPlD-0007Qp-54 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 08 Jun 2006 19:01:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k58J0Gqu014522; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 19:00:16 GMT Received: from mail.obsidian-studios.com (mail.obsidian-studios.com [72.17.152.163]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k58J0Djn023565 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 19:00:14 GMT Received: (qmail 19953 invoked from network); 8 Jun 2006 15:00:16 -0400 Received: from mail.obsidian-studios.com (HELO ASSP-nospam) (192.168.0.51) by mail.obsidian-studios.com with SMTP; 8 Jun 2006 15:00:16 -0400 Received: from 192.168.1.211 ([192.168.1.211] helo=wlt.obsidian-studios.com) by ASSP-nospam ; 8 Jun 06 19:00:16 -0000 Subject: Re: [gentoo-java] java, tomcat5, and AMD64 From: "William L. Thomson Jr." To: Greg Tassone Cc: gentoo-java In-Reply-To: <1149792219.8362.8.camel@tassadar> References: <4487B0BB.9020808@adamsbros.org> <1149750225.8338.12.camel@greg.tassoneent.com> <1149773698.25569.8.camel@wlt.obsidian-studios.com> <1149792219.8362.8.camel@tassadar> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Obsidian-Studios, Inc. Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 15:00:14 -0400 Message-Id: <1149793214.28230.16.camel@wlt.obsidian-studios.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-java@gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Assp-Spam-Prob: 0.00000 X-Assp-Envelope-From: wlt@obsidian-studios.com X-Archives-Salt: cc854bc3-5931-4251-922d-1c751e2e2ca1 X-Archives-Hash: 65b1a533f00bdc90270a2c0c4c28f912 On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 11:43 -0700, Greg Tassone wrote: > > Thanks for the correction. I think it was too late for me to reply to > anything last night. ;-) No worries, wasn't meaning to a prude, just wanted it straight for the record. Others sake etc. > > I have been running Tomcat 5.5.x on production systems since February. > > On development servers since like December. The 5.5.x ebuild and > > resulting binaries all should be 100%... > > It sounds like you're referring to your ebuild specifically, yes? Well I hardly consider it mine. I started to un-official take over maintaining it around December or so. When I was wondering why it was so old. Looking to complain, and found no one to complain to. Since I needed Tomcat, felt I needed to do something. So here we are :) > (Of > course Tomcat 5.5 itself has been solid/production-quality for a long > time now.) Yes, but also for the record some Tomcat devs don't like us compiling Tomcat from source. Mainly because of people running 5.0.x versions, having problems, and making noise in the tomcat community. Not Gentoo ones or etc. Not even sure specifically compiling related. Just another gripe :) Now to date, there is only one gentoo user (also a developer) who had a freak weird occurrence with 5.5.x via ebuild in java-experimental overlay. However I spent considerable time researching it, and seems to be a issue with the webapp being deployed. Despite it working with binary release of 5.5.x just fine. At some point I might have to do a comparison on the specific versions of everything the binary is compiled and bundled with vs compiling from source on Gentoo with latest versions of it all. > This is good to know, thanks. I may switch over to your > ebuild on various machines in the future. Yes, at least in theory the 5.5.x ones, latest being 5.5.17 are much better than most others in portage. Only one being actively maintained to my knowledge. They should be good to go, and as solid as the official binary release versions. Ideally maybe a bit better since it might have newer, bug free versions of compile time deps, and bundled stuff (linked to on Gentoo). I have not had a problem with any version of 5.5.x compiled from source on Gentoo. From what I can tell from irc, and etc, there are a decent amount of people using 5.5.x versions of tomcat via the ebuild without a problem. If anyone does have any problems I will do my best to look into and resolve. Also for the record I am not the official maintainer just yet. Working on that as well. Still allot of stuff inherited from previous ebuilds and maintainers. Which will be cleaned up, and the ebuild dialed in a bit further with regard to permissions and etc. Not to mention some documentation on it, layout, and etc. -- Sincerely, William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com -- gentoo-java@gentoo.org mailing list