make jsse support optional

[Guillaume Rousse <Gu...@univ-reunion.fr>]

I could be wrong here, as i didn't try to hack the build script, but jsse
is currently mandatory for building tomcat, even if ssl support is not used
thereafter. As long as jsse is not free, i think it should be rendered
optional for building as well. This way, tomcat introduction would be a lot
easier for strict licensing policy Linux distributions, such as Debian or
Mandrake.
Would this wish be acceptable for next Tomcat release ?

Guillaume
-- 
After designing a useful routine that gets around a familiar "bug" in the
system, the system is revised, the "bug" is taken away, and you're left
with a useless routine
		-- Thoreau's Theories of Adaption n°2

Re: make jsse support optional

[cm...@yahoo.com]

Hi Guillaume,

> I could be wrong here, as i didn't try to hack the build script, but jsse
> is currently mandatory for building tomcat, even if ssl support is not used

You are right for 3.2.x - you can consider this as a bug in the build
script. It's not hard to fix it - but I don't think it's that important (
since there are workarounds - like downloading the binaries )

In 3.3 it is fixed ( and one of the nightly tests is done without JSSE ).

> thereafter. As long as jsse is not free, i think it should be rendered
> optional for building as well. This way, tomcat introduction would be a lot
> easier for strict licensing policy Linux distributions, such as Debian or
> Mandrake.
> Would this wish be acceptable for next Tomcat release ?

For the next release - absolutely. For 3.2.2 - I think it is still
possible, but I wouldn't be that interested.

BTW, you need JSSE to build - but you don't need to include it in 
the binary. ( the same way as you use the GPL gcc to build software with
other licence )

Costin