[Building Sakai] Tomcat version and sakai 2.6.x

[Zach A. Thomas]

On Jun 24, 2009, at 5:05 AM, Diego del Blanco Orobitg wrote:

> 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?


A project I did last year was temporarily derailed by a Tomcat 2.5.23  
bug. It was this one:
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=44494

This particular issue did not affect the code in Sakai itself, but it  
did affect the custom code we were developing.

Ask your hosting company to look at http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/changelog.html 
  and tell you how many of the bugs that have been fixed since 5.5.23  
they are "comfortable" with. I'm being sarcastic of course. What they  
are proposing doesn't make any sense.

cheers,
Zach