Rémy,

On 3/29/18 8:42 AM, Rémy Maucherat wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 2:33 PM, Christopher Schultz <
> ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote:
> 
>> Rémy,
>>
>> On 3/28/18 2:25 PM, Rémy Maucherat wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> In Tomcat, DBCP2 is missing the XA portion (all contained in a single
>>> "managed" package). So at work I now got some people asking about that
>>> removal, and that's always a bit annoying as they have to go to a
>> separate
>>> vanilla DBCP2 to get the functionality. Annoying sometimes.
>>>
>>> So it would be possible to add the classes in Tomcat (including the
>>> javax.transaction to build, as that's the Tomcat way to deal with that),
>>> even though the user would need to add its own transaction manager to do
>>> anything with it.
>>>
>>> Should I now add it (only in 9/trunk) or instead leave things the way
>> they
>>> are ? Both work to be honest, it's just that I've been bitten by the "we
>>> only ship 3/4 of DBCP and I didn't know it" bug.
>>
>> I've always wondered why we bother to package-rename DBCP2 and check-in
>> the source into our svn repo (soon to be Git). Why not pull DBCP2 from
>> source during the build and re-name it on the fly?
>>
>> Because that's what was done before Tomcat 8.0 and it's not done like that
> now :)
> Mark wrote this:
>         Switch to including Apache Commons DBCP via a package renamed svn
> copy
>         rather than building from a source release for consistency with
> other
>         Commons packages and to allow faster releases to fix DBCP related
>         issues. (markt)
> 
> And you didn't complain then it seems.

So we do it this way because I failed to speak-up? Unlikely.

Anyhow, this seems like a "DBCP related issue" so we ought to be able to
do a "faster release" by duplicating more code, then, eh?

I'm +0 on this, FTR.

-chris

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