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Date:      Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:25:13 -0500
From:      Yoshihiro Ota <ota@j.email.ne.jp>
To:        =?UTF-8?B?R8OhYm9yIEvDtnZlc2TDoW4=?= <gabor@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ota@j.email.ne.jp, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: jakarta-tomcat v.s. tomcat
Message-ID:  <20081118212513.a37f9f58.ota@j.email.ne.jp>
In-Reply-To: <491929C1.1070002@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20081111010958.da6924e8.ota@j.email.ne.jp> <491929C1.1070002@FreeBSD.org>

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On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:44:17 +0100
Gábor Kövesdán <gabor@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Yoshihiro Ota escribió:
> > Hello, forks.
> >
> > There are 2 directories for apache-tomcat like the following.
> >
> > % ls -d */*tomcat*
> > java/eclipse-sysdeo-tomcat      www/tomcat41
> > www/jakarta-tomcat4             www/tomcat55
> > www/jakarta-tomcat5             www/tomcat6
> > www/tomcat-native
> >
> > When I diffed ver. 5 dirs, they looked similar except versions.
> > Does anyone know the differences between jakarta-tomcat and tomcat under the ports?
> >   
> Afaik, it used to be known as Jakarta-Tomcat, but its new name is 
> Tomcat. If you observe it well www/tomcat41 and www/tomcat55 are much 
> newer version than www/jakarta-tomcat4 and www/jakarta-tomcat5 and there 
> isn't even www/jakarta-tomcat6. I suggest you should just use 
> www/tomcat6. I'm also planning to use it and I succeeded to install it 
> without problems and I can reach it through the port 8180.

Indeed, that is one of the answer I had expected.  So, if www/tomcat* are
the new ones, why don't we remove www/jakarta-tomcat*?

Hiro



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