[Building Sakai] Building Sakai from Source

[Gregory Guthrie]

A few very simple questions about the page: Sakai CLE 2.9 install guide (source)
     https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=82249316

- It has some sections labelled with a red (-) sign, are those depreciated? And if so why are they still there?

For example the "Java Settings" section gives several options;
   -Dsun.lang.ClassLoader.allowArraySyntax=true
   -Dorg.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.STRICT_QUOTE_ESCAPING=false
   -Dhttp.agent=Sakai
Which I presume are additional JAVA_OPTS, but not included except in the (-) section.

The Tomcat section, says to get Tomcat, but then not to use anything newer that Tomcat 7.0.21 (current version is 7.0.52); but the JIRAs references are all marked "closed". Can one use current version of Tomcat?

(The Subversion site has changed - is now: subversion.apache.org)