tomcat5.5

[Stefan Gybas]

Shobhit Jindal wrote:

> plzz someone clarify why tomcat5.5 wos introduced as a new package and
> not a upgrade to tomcat5

This was done because Tomcat 5.5 was designed to run on JDK 1.5 while
Tomcat 5.0 also supports JDK 1.4. For example, I'm currently working on
a project were we have to stick with JDK 1.4 for various reasons. So I'm
not able to use Tomcat 5.5 yet.

Another advantage is that the tomcat5 and tomcat5.5 packages can be
installed at the same time so you can test your web applications with
both versions or make a step-by-step upgrade.

> and why its still in experimental(and dat too .15 and not .17 which has
> been released quite some time back)?

I think it's in experimental because there are still bugs in the
package. Please search the mailing list archive and BTS for details.
Tomcat 5.5.15 was used because it was the current version at the time
when work started on the tomcat5.5 package.

You can provide a patch that fixes theses bugs so the package can move
to unstable more quickly. You can also upgrade to 5.5.17 in your patch
if you want to.

Please note that we want the tomcat5.5 package to be in main so it must
be buildable und runable with a JDK from main.


Stefan