On 23/06/17 23:17, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Le 23/06/2017 à 21:15, Christopher Schultz a écrit : > >> The idea was to encourage package repository maintainers to migrate to >> Tomcat 8.5. If we never sundown Tomcat 8.0, they'll never move (witness >> the presence of Tomcat 6.0 still lurking around half the Internet). > > As far as Debian is concerned, the migration to Tomcat 8.5 did happen in > Debian 9. But Debian 8 users are stuck with Tomcat 8.0.x until June > 2020. Tomcat 8.5 isn't a drop-in replacement for Tomcat 8.0 > unfortunately, so it's a bit difficult to push this upgrade in a stable > distribution.
If 8.5.x was a drop-in replacement would that make a difference? And as a follow-up, what would need to change so 8.5.x was viewed a drop-in replacement? The only thing I can think of is lack of support for the BIO connectors. I have an easy fix for that if there is interest. Anything else? Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
