On 26/06/17 13:13, Coty Sutherland wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 5:51 AM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote:
>> On 26/06/17 08:12, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
>>> Le 24/06/2017 à 17:25, Mark Thomas a écrit :
>>>
>>>> If 8.5.x was a drop-in replacement would that make a difference?
>>>
>>> Yes that would help.
>>>
>>>
>>>> And as a follow-up, what would need to change so 8.5.x was viewed a
>>>> drop-in replacement?
>>>
>>> The removal of the BIO connectors was the main issue reported. It broke
>>> tomcatjss [1][2], dogtag [3][4] and jglobus [5].
>>
>> That is easily fixable. I've already got a patch to fix that I use as
>> $work that I can pull in.
> 
> That fix won't work for tomcatjss because they use the socket directly
> iirc. Short of putting the connector back tomcatjss has to be updated
> to work with NIO before it will work again.

:(

I don't see a full restoration of BIO happening in 8.5.x.

> I'm trying to make it easy
> on the Fedora folks by not updating to 8.5 until they have a solution
> for dogtag, so the sooner that is resolved (I think we've already made
> suggestions on how to fix it) the sooner I can update Fedora Rawhide
> to 8.5 and push for adoption there.

If there is anything we can do in Tomcat to make that process easier
then do speak up.

Mark


> 
>>>> Anything else?
>>>
>>> I can't remember of other issues with the transition to 8.5.
>>
>> OK, that is pretty good news then.
>>
>> Assuming we get the BIO issue fixed, might a transition to 8.5.x be
>> looked at again? If any additional issues come up I'm sure the Tomcat
>> community would be willing to discuss options for resolving them.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>>
>>> Emmanuel Bourg
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/dogtagpki/tomcatjss
>>> [2] https://bugs.debian.org/846677
>>> [3] http://pki.fedoraproject.org
>>> [4] https://bugs.debian.org/846714
>>> [5] https://bugs.debian.org/846723
>>>
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