Re: Modified dist.xml to produce platform native packages

2009-06-19 Thread Mark Thomas
> From: Mladen Turk > I suppose the .sh files have LF line endings even in .zip, > and those are the only one critical. I believe they do (I'm not near my pc so can't check) and if they don't, I'd be +1 for changing the build scipts so they do. Mark --

Re: Modified dist.xml to produce platform native packages

2009-06-18 Thread Mladen Turk
Guenter Knauf wrote: Personally I would prefer something like the MSYS or Cygwin installer: one executable (I think this could / should even be written in Java) One thing I hate with Cygwin is it's installer, and with Mingw I really have no clue what to download from the hundred or so things on

Re: Modified dist.xml to produce platform native packages

2009-06-18 Thread Guenter Knauf
Hi, Mark Thomas schrieb: > +1. If we get feedback from users that suggests changes we can re-evaluate. I got in the past every now and then feedbacks from users who wanted to upgrade TC from a previous version: they were really confused by the single packages, and always asking 'what do I really ne

Re: Modified dist.xml to produce platform native packages

2009-06-18 Thread Mladen Turk
Mark Thomas wrote: Mladen Turk wrote: (I'm not even convinced we absolutely need CR-LF line endings). The reason is that some platforms have limited default tar implementation like Solaris (especially for long file names and paths). I see where you are coming from but I think the line ending

Re: Modified dist.xml to produce platform native packages

2009-06-18 Thread Mark Thomas
Mladen Turk wrote: > Mark Thomas wrote: >> Mladen Turk wrote: >>> The standard .zip distro should contain only the bare tomcat. >>> Everything else like docs, deployer etc are already in separate >>> packages. >>> The point is to have the same functionality as with .exe installer >>> but from indiv

Re: Modified dist.xml to produce platform native packages

2009-06-18 Thread Mladen Turk
Mark Thomas wrote: Mladen Turk wrote: The standard .zip distro should contain only the bare tomcat. Everything else like docs, deployer etc are already in separate packages. The point is to have the same functionality as with .exe installer but from individual peaces, just like you select which

Re: Modified dist.xml to produce platform native packages

2009-06-18 Thread Mark Thomas
Mladen Turk wrote: > Mark Thomas wrote: >> >> How about the replacing the current single Tomcat binary zip >> distribution with 3 >> distributions that contain Tomcat, APR/native connector and the >> service wrapper >> for each of the three windows architectures. That way each user only >> has do g

Re: Modified dist.xml to produce platform native packages

2009-06-18 Thread Mladen Turk
Mark Thomas wrote: How about the replacing the current single Tomcat binary zip distribution with 3 distributions that contain Tomcat, APR/native connector and the service wrapper for each of the three windows architectures. That way each user only has do get one download and they'll have everyt

Re: Modified dist.xml to produce platform native packages

2009-06-18 Thread Mark Thomas
Mladen Turk wrote: > Mark Thomas wrote: >> Mladen Turk wrote: >>> As you might see from the SVN log I added few more dist files. >>> The newly created files are: >>> >>> apache-tomcat-7.0.0-dev-win32-x86-native.zip >>> apache-tomcat-7.0.0-dev-win64-ia64-native.zip >>> apache-tomcat-7.0.0-dev-win64-

Re: Modified dist.xml to produce platform native packages

2009-06-18 Thread Mladen Turk
Mark Thomas wrote: Mladen Turk wrote: As you might see from the SVN log I added few more dist files. The newly created files are: apache-tomcat-7.0.0-dev-win32-x86-native.zip apache-tomcat-7.0.0-dev-win64-ia64-native.zip apache-tomcat-7.0.0-dev-win64-x86_64-native.zip apache-tomcat-7.0.0-dev

Re: Modified dist.xml to produce platform native packages

2009-06-18 Thread Mark Thomas
Mladen Turk wrote: > As you might see from the SVN log I added few more dist files. > The newly created files are: > > apache-tomcat-7.0.0-dev-win32-x86-native.zip > apache-tomcat-7.0.0-dev-win64-ia64-native.zip > apache-tomcat-7.0.0-dev-win64-x86_64-native.zip > apache-tomcat-7.0.0-dev-windows-x