Re: Relation of jasper and servlet API to Tomcat

2006-08-20 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 13:43 -0700, Costin Manolache wrote: > If you want to include the real tomcat in gentoo - please use the official > label, follow the same procedure as > our release, We do include the "real" Tomcat. Problem is aspects of Tomcat many other apps use. With regard to Jasper I be

Re: Relation of jasper and servlet API to Tomcat

2006-08-20 Thread Costin Manolache
If you want to include the real tomcat in gentoo - please use the official label, follow the same procedure as our release, and make sure the result of emerge is identical with what the user would get if he would get tomcat from ASF. If you have to patch - and the patch alters the structure or beh

Re: Relation of jasper and servlet API to Tomcat

2006-08-19 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
Tim, Thank you very much for the info. For now at least I will make sure our Jasper package is kept in sync with Tomcat releases. On Sat, 2006-08-19 at 19:36 -0400, Tim Funk wrote: > In different versions of Tomcat, Jasper could change "a lot" since its > not a "public api". But it's coo

Re: Relation of jasper and servlet API to Tomcat

2006-08-19 Thread Tim Funk
In different versions of Tomcat, Jasper could change "a lot" since its not a "public api". The servlet api could also change in different Tomcat revisions too. But these changes are usually VERY minor and due to corrections/errata found in the spec. Typically - when Tomcat changes - there w