Re: New Contributor Introduction & Initial Proposal for Contribution

2007-10-12 Thread Filip Hanik - Dev Lists
Paul Shemansky wrote: Hi Filip, Thank you for your guidance. I resolved my build issues. According to the BUILDING.txt, you need a 1.5.x "or later" JDK, and I was using a 1.6.x JDK. Although the build properties are set to compile using 1.5, the build still seems to break on 1.6. Perhaps

Re: New Contributor Introduction & Initial Proposal for Contribution

2007-10-12 Thread Paul Shemansky
Hi Filip, Thank you for your guidance. I resolved my build issues. According to the BUILDING.txt, you need a 1.5.x"or later" JDK, and I was using a 1.6.x JDK. Although the build properties are set to compile using 1.5, the build still seems to break on 1.6. Perhaps we should investigate buildi

Re: New Contributor Introduction & Initial Proposal for Contribution

2007-10-12 Thread jkew
This reminds me, I don't think ever I've introduced myself formally yet: My name is John Kew and I'm one of the open source engineers at SourceLabs. My job is to fix bugs in tomcat (among other side projects). I have a varied professional background and a history supporting open source softwar

Re: New Contributor Introduction & Initial Proposal for Contribution

2007-10-12 Thread Filip Hanik - Dev Lists
Hi Paul, welcome! It's good news and we always welcome new ideas and new contributions. Let me address your building issue first, building is quite easy. Requirements: ant, java 1.5 1. check out SVN directory svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/tc6.0.x/trunk 2. download deps cd trun