[Q] TC 5.5.x/TC 5.0.x

[Stephane Bailliez <sb...@apache.org>]

Could you guys clarify a bit the development effort on TC 5 ?
(Note: i'm asking the question since I was unable to find such info on 
the ml archive despite the TC5.5 thread many moons ago)

I'd appreciate to know what I can recommend as a Servlet 2.4/ JSP 2.0 
production ready container.

AFAIK development effort is focused on 5.5.x and some stuff backported 
in 5.0.x. Until what point is it reasonable to expect something on the 
5.0.x branch ? Did you agree on a pseudo milestone to drop support ?

5.5.x uses JRE 5.0 which may or may not be appropriate for many 
organizations, so 5.0.x remains an in-between alternative for many 
environments, but I'd like your developer opinion on the status of each 
  branch as of today.

NB: I would recommend stating clearly on the front page that TC5.5 
requires JRE 5.0 rather than only on the download info as it may be 
confusing to users.

Cheers,

Stephane


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Re: [Q] TC 5.5.x/TC 5.0.x

[Stephane Bailliez <sb...@apache.org>]

Remy Maucherat wrote:
> Stephane Bailliez wrote:
> 
>> AFAIK development effort is focused on 5.5.x and some stuff backported 
>> in 5.0.x. Until what point is it reasonable to expect something on the 
>> 5.0.x branch ? Did you agree on a pseudo milestone to drop support ?
> 
> Branches are supported as long as there are people willing to do the 
> work. 3.3 is still supported, for example.

Fair enough, but resources are scarce, and fixing bugs and rolling 
releases takes time. Last TC 3.3 release was 10 months ago, there has 
been 1 release of TC 4.1 in the last 6 months and obvious effort are on 
TC 5 since it is the latest API.

I just wanted to figure out what's the effort like on the 2 branches and 
if 5.5 is considered to be somewhat production ready from your point.

I have had myself patches on the manager app against 4.1.30 in bugzilla 
since may 2004 that I did for some customers. it's no big deal but if 
they ask me to fix something else, I may tell them to upgrade to 5.x 
instead.

At this point I'm using 5.0.x which looks good so far, but did not try 
it in production yet. And was putting myself aside of 5.5.x (see below).

>> 5.5.x uses JRE 5.0 which may or may not be appropriate for many 
>> organizations, so 5.0.x remains an in-between alternative for many 
>> environments, but I'd like your developer opinion on the status of 
>> each  branch as of today.
> 
> 
> 5.5 does not require Java 5. The default binary is packaged for Java 5, 
> and there's a compatibility package adding a few JARs for Java 1.4.

Crap. I don't know how to read. Doh !

Thanks for the head up.

Stephane


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Re: [Q] TC 5.5.x/TC 5.0.x

[Remy Maucherat <re...@apache.org>]

Stephane Bailliez wrote:
> 
> Could you guys clarify a bit the development effort on TC 5 ?
> (Note: i'm asking the question since I was unable to find such info on 
> the ml archive despite the TC5.5 thread many moons ago)
> 
> I'd appreciate to know what I can recommend as a Servlet 2.4/ JSP 2.0 
> production ready container.
> 
> AFAIK development effort is focused on 5.5.x and some stuff backported 
> in 5.0.x. Until what point is it reasonable to expect something on the 
> 5.0.x branch ? Did you agree on a pseudo milestone to drop support ?

Branches are supported as long as there are people willing to do the 
work. 3.3 is still supported, for example.

> 5.5.x uses JRE 5.0 which may or may not be appropriate for many 
> organizations, so 5.0.x remains an in-between alternative for many 
> environments, but I'd like your developer opinion on the status of each 
>  branch as of today.

5.5 does not require Java 5. The default binary is packaged for Java 5, 
and there's a compatibility package adding a few JARs for Java 1.4.

Rémy

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