From users-return-225099-apmail-tomcat-users-archive=tomcat.apache.org@tomcat.apache.org Thu Jun 2 20:07:37 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-tomcat-users-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-tomcat-users-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 15AAA43B7 for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2011 20:07:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 93055 invoked by uid 500); 2 Jun 2011 20:07:33 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-tomcat-users-archive@tomcat.apache.org Received: (qmail 92903 invoked by uid 500); 2 Jun 2011 20:07:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact users-help@tomcat.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: "Tomcat Users List" Delivered-To: mailing list users@tomcat.apache.org Received: (qmail 92894 invoked by uid 99); 2 Jun 2011 20:07:33 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 02 Jun 2011 20:07:33 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of aw@ice-sa.com designates 212.85.38.228 as permitted sender) Received: from [212.85.38.228] (HELO tor.combios.es) (212.85.38.228) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 02 Jun 2011 20:07:27 +0000 Received: from [192.168.245.129] (p549E0C37.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.158.12.55]) by tor.combios.es (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 36F512260F1 for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2011 22:07:06 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4DE7ED58.8030500@ice-sa.com> Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 22:06:48 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcsOpIFdhcm5pZXI=?= Reply-To: Tomcat Users List User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: maxPostSize syntax References: <921cee48-1b91-44b4-98d7-15bb9a9c0ab3@email.android.com> <4DE54384.2090407@christopherschultz.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Olivier Lefevre wrote: > You guys have a chip on your shoulder. This is Java. > "M", "m", "G" and "g" are accepted as > sizes by all the -Xm? options, so why not by Tomcat. > M and G are size units, too. > > Other than dudes with an attitude like you, nobody > refers to 64M as 67108864. > Olivier, this doesn't help. You idea about the M and G (and K) suffixes is not fundamentally a bad one, and requested nicely as an enhancement it may have stood some chance of being added in a future version of Tomcat. But if I was one of the Tomcat developers, even one with a very small attitude, after the above post I would now just put it on the list for Tomcat 15.0. The normal answer to a post like the one above would be to ignore it, and to further ignore any future posts by the same author. Let me explain why : First there is this : http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Then, - the "dudes" which develop Tomcat do this for free, on their own time. - many of these same dudes also spend time watching this list and trying to help other people in resolving Tomcat issues, also for free. - there exist good software developers with an attitude; there are also many without an attitude. - there are also many other people who have never contributed useful software to the community, but seem perfectly content to use the results of the work of the former for free, and just contribute critics and sarcasm. I believe these people are commonly referred to as "leaches". One may also say they have an attitude. - I am neither a good software developer nor one of the Tomcat developers, and have never contributed any code to Tomcat; I just use it. But I have personally met several of the Tomcat developers. They are nice people, and I cannot remember any one of them having "an attitude". In summary : you are using for free a very good software package which others have developed. It does not have a minor feature which you would find nice. You ask about it, get a couple of answers which you don't like, and your response is to become abusive. I believe that the best course now would be to apologise, and re-phrase your request politely and constructively. And if also by chance you happened to be a Java developer and willing to contribute your skills, the Tomcat source code is available, also for free, and the Tomcat developers would probably be very receptive to a proposal from you for implementing your suggestion, in the form of a patch. They may even then forget your last post. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@tomcat.apache.org