Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 21:55:17 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> Cc: Ernst de Haan <znerd@FreeBSD.ORG>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ANN: Jakarta Tomcat 4 now in www/jakarta-tomcat Message-ID: <20020402215517.A78205@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20020402162910.A550@misty.eyesbeyond.com>; from glewis@eyesbeyond.com on Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 04:29:10PM %2B0930 References: <200204012215.AAA01615@smtp.hccnet.nl> <20020402180420.C39054@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <20020402162910.A550@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
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On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 04:29:10PM +0930, Greg Lewis wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 06:04:20PM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote:
[...]
> > Since Tomcat 3 has been moved to www/jakarta-tomcat3, this begs the
> > question why Tomcat 4 isn't in www/jakarta-tomcat4 instead of
> > www/jakarta-tomcat.
>
> There was a discussion of this. The popular wisdom was, since Tomcat 4
> is now the stable, production version, that it should be the main Tomcat
> port.
There are 2 points I'd like to bring up with this:
1. Quite a few ports have the major-version appended to
their names. eg: qt, jdk, apache, gtk. Why not follow existing
convention?
2. It saves on the repo-copy when we move up to Tomcat 5.
Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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