[ale] Would you get Redhat Tomcat from Redhat or Apache?

[Tim Watts]

On Mon, 2013-08-12 at 14:21 -0400, Scott Plante wrote:
> Tomcat 7 has been GA for 2.5+ years, and Redhat is still distributing
> 6? Tomcat 8 is close to release these days. We always use the binaries
> from Apache because the repositories are too far behind. If we weren't
> developing our own software, and were just using some packaged product
> that worked fine with 6 I'd probably feel differently. I'm on both
> sides of the developer/admin fence though.

This.  I expect TC6 to start moving to EOL within a year.  There just
aren't enough folks available/interested to maintain that many versions.

And if you ever need support from the Tomcat user list the first thing
they'll tell you if they sniff out that you're using a non-Apache
package is to download a "real" Tomcat from Apache and see if you can
reproduce the problem there.


> Scott
> 
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: "Neal Rhodes" <neal at mnopltd.com>
> To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 12:40:08 PM
> Subject: [ale] Would you get Redhat Tomcat from Redhat or Apache?
> 
> Trying to get back on A topic which relates to linux....
> 
> If you were charged with putting up a secure internal Web Services
> framework on RedHat Enterprise Linux 6.4 for a financial application,
> would you:
>         "yum install tomcat6"
> or, 
>         go to Apache.org, download the sources, compile, and pray. 
>         
>         
> No, this is not a trick question.    I've always just used the tested
> supplied Redhat version which "just works".  But there are apparently
> other opinions, just trying to figure out if they are crazy. 
> 
> Neal Rhodes
> MNOP Ltd 
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