making building releases easier?

[Dean Hiller <de...@xsoftware.biz>]

Is it possible to make building tomcat official releases easier.  Building from the cvs head is cake, but building 4.1.30 is a 27 step process.

I basically wanted to change line 533 of PageContextImpl because I believe there is a bug there(t is not reported at all to the user so the real root cause is still hidden from the users).

There have been 20 posts around an issue with struts which I really believe is a possible issue with struts but some minor changes to tomcat would probably make it extremely clear what the problem is.

thanks for any info on this...ps.  I may have some time to do this work which means I would have to figure out the 27 step process so I could make it more like 3-4 steps.
thanks,
dean

RE: making building releases easier?

[de...@xsoftware.biz]

cool.  Thanks.  Yes, I would have probably found it was fixed when I went
to reproduce which I will probably try out tonight.
thanks for the info,
dean

> From: dean@xsoftware.biz [mailto:dean@xsoftware.biz]
>> Actually, I would prefer fixing and submitting these myself
>> so I can get
>> used to the code in tomcat.  thanks for the offer though.
>
> No problem. Although my real point was it might already be fixed.
>
>> How is it that 5.0.29 is beta and 5.0.28 is not???
>> thanks,
>> dean
>
> 5.0.29 in still in the release process. Depending on the results of
> testing it
> will (or won't) get upgraded to stable.
>
>
>
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RE: making building releases easier?

[Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>]

From: dean@xsoftware.biz [mailto:dean@xsoftware.biz] 
> Actually, I would prefer fixing and submitting these myself 
> so I can get
> used to the code in tomcat.  thanks for the offer though.

No problem. Although my real point was it might already be fixed.

> How is it that 5.0.29 is beta and 5.0.28 is not???
> thanks,
> dean

5.0.29 in still in the release process. Depending on the results of testing it
will (or won't) get upgraded to stable.



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RE: making building releases easier?

[de...@xsoftware.biz]

Actually, I would prefer fixing and submitting these myself so I can get
used to the code in tomcat.  thanks for the offer though.

tomcat 5 - I am a moron.  I didn't realize since building tomcat 5 from
the head was made easier that maybe someone made building the official
release easier also(I see now it is only 5 steps...SWEEEEEEET!!!).  I will
just change to tomcat 5.

ps. There are three official releases of tomcat 5
5.0.28
5.0.29-beta
5.5.3

How is it that 5.0.29 is beta and 5.0.28 is not???
thanks,
dean

> From: Dean Hiller [mailto:dean@xsoftware.biz]
>>
>> Is it possible to make building tomcat official releases
>> easier.  Building from the cvs head is cake, but building
>> 4.1.30 is a 27 step process.
>
> I assume you mean TC5 is a lot easier than TC4. One possible shortcut is
> to use
> a TC4 installation to get all the libraries you need. As for improving the
> TC4
> build scripts, patches are always welcome although it is worth remembering
> that
> TC5 is the focus of effort for the majority of tomcat developers.
>
>> I basically wanted to change line 533 of PageContextImpl
>> because I believe there is a bug there(t is not reported at
>> all to the user so the real root cause is still hidden from
>> the users).
>
> There are some changes to the error dispatching valve in 4.1.31 that _may_
> help
> you here. 4.1.31 will be released very shortly. In the mean time you can
> always
> gets rc2 from http://www.apache.org/~keith/rc2/bin/.
> Alternatively, if you have a simple test case (with or without struts)
> open a
> bugzilla item, add the test case and I will have a look at it.
>
>
>
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RE: making building releases easier?

[Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>]

From: Dean Hiller [mailto:dean@xsoftware.biz] 
> 
> Is it possible to make building tomcat official releases 
> easier.  Building from the cvs head is cake, but building 
> 4.1.30 is a 27 step process.

I assume you mean TC5 is a lot easier than TC4. One possible shortcut is to use
a TC4 installation to get all the libraries you need. As for improving the TC4
build scripts, patches are always welcome although it is worth remembering that
TC5 is the focus of effort for the majority of tomcat developers.

> I basically wanted to change line 533 of PageContextImpl 
> because I believe there is a bug there(t is not reported at 
> all to the user so the real root cause is still hidden from 
> the users).

There are some changes to the error dispatching valve in 4.1.31 that _may_ help
you here. 4.1.31 will be released very shortly. In the mean time you can always
gets rc2 from http://www.apache.org/~keith/rc2/bin/. 
Alternatively, if you have a simple test case (with or without struts) open a
bugzilla item, add the test case and I will have a look at it.



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