Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-tomcat-dev-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-tomcat-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 51D7E70F3 for ; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:01:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 12942 invoked by uid 500); 21 Dec 2011 22:01:21 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-tomcat-dev-archive@tomcat.apache.org Received: (qmail 12759 invoked by uid 500); 21 Dec 2011 22:01:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@tomcat.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: "Tomcat Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list dev@tomcat.apache.org Received: (qmail 12750 invoked by uid 99); 21 Dec 2011 22:01:21 -0000 Received: from minotaur.apache.org (HELO minotaur.apache.org) (140.211.11.9) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:01:21 +0000 Received: from localhost (HELO [192.168.23.9]) (127.0.0.1) (smtp-auth username markt, mechanism plain) by minotaur.apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:01:21 +0000 Message-ID: <4EF2572C.4040103@apache.org> Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:01:16 +0000 From: Mark Thomas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.2; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tomcat Developers List Subject: Re: Move to Maven? (WAS: Re: Publishing process for JARs for Maven Central) References: <4EEDA65A.9040905@apache.org> <4EEF7067.7050609@pidster.com> <4EEF73A9.8040009@apache.org> <4EEF807B.2030709@apache.org> <4EF07258.7050106@apache.org> <4EF24DEC.6030508@apache.org> <4EF24E8D.7050702@apache.org> <4EF25641.8090605@apache.org> In-Reply-To: <4EF25641.8090605@apache.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 21/12/2011 21:57, Mladen Turk wrote: > On 12/21/2011 10:24 PM, Mark Thomas wrote: >> On 21/12/2011 21:21, Mladen Turk wrote: >>> On 12/21/2011 09:34 PM, Olivier Lamy wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> I have started some stuff here: https://github.com/olamy/tomcat70. >>>> >>> >>> We must at least create 7.1.x branch for such a crucial change. >> >> I'm not sure we need a new branch if the end result is going to be the >> same. >> > > Well, we would screw anyone doing derivative work, that's for sure. > Also any distribution packaging tomcat will have serious problems as well > since almost all of them use package dependencies instead > download or maven tasks. > Eg, take a look at > https://github.com/vanaf/tomcat7-fedora/blob/master/tomcat.spec > OpenSuse is almost the same (they add some Geronimo dependencies however) > > In essence no packages will be able to change the version > unless he rewrites the .spec or debian files from scratch thought. Ouch. That is argument for only doing this in trunk, if we do it at all. Still need to figure out how to merge patches if we go that way. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@tomcat.apache.org