From owner-freebsd-java Tue Apr 2 1:56:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (adsl-210.54.19.51.quicksilver.net.nz [210.54.19.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E36FD37B427; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 01:56:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by chen.org.nz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g329tHF78451; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 21:55:17 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 21:55:17 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Greg Lewis Cc: Ernst de Haan , ports@FreeBSD.ORG, java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ANN: Jakarta Tomcat 4 now in www/jakarta-tomcat Message-ID: <20020402215517.A78205@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <200204012215.AAA01615@smtp.hccnet.nl> <20020402180420.C39054@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <20020402162910.A550@misty.eyesbeyond.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020402162910.A550@misty.eyesbeyond.com>; from glewis@eyesbeyond.com on Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 04:29:10PM +0930 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, Apr 02, 2002 at 04:29:10PM +0930, Greg Lewis wrote: > On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 06:04:20PM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: [...] > > Since Tomcat 3 has been moved to www/jakarta-tomcat3, this begs the > > question why Tomcat 4 isn't in www/jakarta-tomcat4 instead of > > www/jakarta-tomcat. > > There was a discussion of this. The popular wisdom was, since Tomcat 4 > is now the stable, production version, that it should be the main Tomcat > port. There are 2 points I'd like to bring up with this: 1. Quite a few ports have the major-version appended to their names. eg: qt, jdk, apache, gtk. Why not follow existing convention? 2. It saves on the repo-copy when we move up to Tomcat 5. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message