[Building Sakai] RV: Tomcat version and sakai 2.6.x

[Dave Ross]

We were on 5.5.23 for Sakai 2.4.x - now on 5.5.26 for Sakai 2.5.x. We try to
stick with the QA'd versions as much as possible to limit our exposure to
bugs.

I would personally tell the external company to let it go (or find a
different company) - as it is *much* more important to use the application
server which the software you are trying to run is Q/A'd against, vs. the
operating system. I'm basically saying that there is a much higher
probability that Sakai needs a specific Tomcat version than an OS does.

Which MySQL version are they pushing? Hopefully not the one that comes w/
RHEL!!!!

-Dave

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Robert Cohen <robert.cohen at anu.edu.au>wrote:

> I don't think theres likely to be any security issues from using the
> earlier
> version since vendors who ship the earlier version take pains to backport
> any security fixes from new releases.
>
> However, I would be wary of using any version that's not the standard
> package downloaded from apache.
>
> I have tried to use the version shipped with redhat a couple of times and
> always had trouble. It always refuses to start, exiting with weird error
> messgaes.
>
>
> On 24/6/09 8:28 PM, "Diego del Blanco Orobitg" <
> diego.delblanco at setival.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Sorry... I mean 5.5.23 and 5.5.26!!!!!! of course!!!!
> >
> > -----Mensaje original-----
> > De: Diego del Blanco Orobitg [mailto:diego.delblanco at setival.com]
> > Enviado el: miércoles, 24 de junio de 2009 12:06
> > Para: 'sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org'
> > Asunto: Tomcat version and sakai 2.6.x
> >
> > Hi:
> >
> > We are going to install Sakai for production in an external server and
> the
> > company that provides us the servers has told us that they rather use the
> > tomcat 2.5.23 that comes with the OS because it's tested and they feel
> more
> > comfortable with it.
> >
> > There is any trouble for using tomcat 2.5.23 with Sakai 2.6.x or we need
> > absolutely to use tomcat 2.5.26 or 27?
> >
> > Thanks in advance as always.
> >
> >
> > Diego del Blanco Orobitg
> > SAMOO. Director Técnico
> > Móvil: +34 653 683 489
> > diego.delblanco at setival.com
> >
> >
> >
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