From owner-freebsd-java Tue Mar 19 11:21:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from fritz.cc.gt.atl.ga.us (fritz.cc.gt.atl.ga.us [199.77.128.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4044C37B400 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 11:21:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dagon@localhost) by fritz.cc.gt.atl.ga.us (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2JJcEq21763; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 14:38:14 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dagon) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 14:38:14 -0500 From: David Dagon To: Rik Scarborough Cc: FreeBSD Java Subject: Re: Tomcat4 port Message-ID: <20020319143814.A21705@fritz.cc.gt.atl.ga.us> References: <20020319180720.GA211@gruffy.kc.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020319180720.GA211@gruffy.kc.rr.com>; from RikSca@kc.rr.com on Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:07:20PM -0600 X-Echelon: RSA Crypto C4 Mossad CIA BXA Export Control Hello to all the fans of the US Patriot Act Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:07:20PM -0600, Rik Scarborough wrote: > I know the plist is not update. I will try to get that updated in a > couple of days, but I'm swamped right now. If someone beats me to it, > great. > > Feedback would be appreciated as this is my first attempt. Wonderful; it's very nice to have. I noticed it fetches from the v4.0.3/bin/ release, and not the source. While I suppose there's little difference in the ultimate byte code, and getting v4.0.x/bin saves time, it would be nice to have the src as well. (Building from source is of course more difficult; there are more dependencies; perhaps this is a later update to the port.) A few picky comments; feel free to ignore completely: -- Am I mistaken that in pkg-descr, it should say that Tomcat 4 is the reference implementation of the 2.3 (not just 2.2) specification? -- I know tomcat does not ship with a manager entry for tomcat-users.xml, but would it make sense to just comment out all the superfluous users? I think it's safe as is, but I've always liked that bsd does just a little more. -- Likewise, should the TOMCAT/conf/server.xml be swapped with the noexamples version? Users can do this by hand of course, and should always take charge of their installations. But I've always liked that BSD takes a conservative approach to default installs. -- Should the default install set the directory be to "logs" in TOMCAT/logs, or perhaps something in /var/log/tomcat? Again, users can change but what's the preference? (I suggest /var/log/tomcat since it might be on a different spindle, or faster, better managed/archived, since other apps write to this central place.) What a wonderful port; thanks for doing this! My comments were merely meant to get ideas. Ignore them if I've overlooked something. -- David Dagon dagon@cc.gatech.edu Georgia Institute of Technology To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message