ports/81458: Update www/jakarta-tomcat5 to 5.5

[Scott Balmos]

The following reply was made to PR ports/81458; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Scott Balmos" <scott.balmos at utoledo.edu>
To: "Herve Quiroz" <herve.quiroz at esil.univ-mrs.fr>
Cc: "Kang Liu" <liukang at bjut.edu.cn>,
 bug-followup at freebsd.org,
 scott.balmos at utoledo.edu
Subject: Re: ports/81458: Update www/jakarta-tomcat5 to 5.5
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 12:57:51 -0400 (EDT)

 Hi Herve & Kang,
 
 <quote who="Herve Quiroz">
 > Speaking of devel ports, do you think "jakarta-tomcat5-devel" would
 > fit better than 'jakarta-tomcat55"? The same goes for
 > jakarta-tomcat4-devel. IMHO, looking at the descriptions of these
 > ports, it seems to me like each branch has its own set of features that
 > don't seem to be merged back. This would mean that they are not "-devel"
 > branches. But I let the choice up to you, as I don't know very much
 > about the distinction between versions.
 >
 > Herve
 >
 
 Tossing in my two cents as an end-user/developer. I think it's more
 appropriate it be named tomcat55. tomcat[4|5]-devel, to me, would be the
 current developments on those brances, like betas/RCs of 5.0.x & 4.0.x.
 But 5.5.x is a completely separate branch.
 
 And I don't think DEPRECATED should be used, either. Quite honestly, I
 don't think any keyword should be used. I can't think of any immediate
 example of any other non-devel port that uses some keyword in order to
 scream "don't use this in production!" to users. I think people (at least
 I am. :D) are apt to know what software is good enough to be used in what
 situation.
 
 If I can make a suggestion... I don't know how this is handled in a ports
 Makefile, but the JAVA_VERSION=1.5+ isn't quite right. JVM 1.5 is the most
 recommended, of course. But 1.4.x+ can be used if the two XML
 compatibility JARs are downloaded and installed also. Maybe this is the
 job of a post-install script or a patchfile or something? Not sure, but
 just suggesting.
 
 Thanks!
 
 --Scott