Remy Maucherat wrote: > On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 11:50 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Author: markt >> Date: Thu Oct 2 04:50:08 2008 >> New Revision: 701093 >> >> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=701093&view=rev >> Log: >> Withdraw patch for further work > > Even if it did not cause any regressions, why was it proposed ? Because it is a bug and there is no other release branch to propose it for. What is the point of users reporting bugs and us fixing them if we have no plans to include the fix in a release branch?
> It is a > minor issue (the guy who is impacted by that should consider packaging > his application properly), There is nothing to say you can't use symlinks for libraries. I wouldn't package my app that way but if we are going to have an allowLinking attribute then we should make sure it actually works. and the patch changes something which is used > in many places Indeed. That is a reason to fix it rather than to leave it in my view. > (it likely makes listing folders an order of magnitude > slower). Directory listings are already horribly slow. There is a patch in BZ to cache them which claims significant improvements. > Tomcat 6.0 is supposed to be a stable branch, so I don't see how > everything can be backported. Until there is an alternative release branch, I don't see how every bug fix can not be backported. Tomcat 7 will be driven by the 3.0 spec timetable. You are on the EG, what are the plans for 3.0? Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
