topic Build.xml now requires Tomcat 6??? in Alfresco Archive

Build.xml now requires Tomcat 6???

tvaughan77 — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:08:04 GMT

Hi,I checked out a fresh copy of alfresco's head and tried the old "ant build-tomcat" and it barfed at the end, complaining about:"Deployment using these scripts requires Tomcat 6."In the build.xml, there's this block: <available file="${home.tomcat}/common/lib" type="dir" property="tomcat5.

Re: Build.xml now requires Tomcat 6???

mrogers — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:42:38 GMT

Yes its for real. The 3.1 / 3D releases are (or will be) Tomcat 6.

Re: Build.xml now requires Tomcat 6???

mikeh — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:23:54 GMT

For future reference, where should I be looking/subscribing/reading to find out about changes like this?

Keep an eye on the check-in notices*. In this case:

r12663: Build is now dependent on Tomcat 6, build will fail if it can't find it. […]

(* By which I mean SVN log.)

Thanks,
Mike