[ale] Would you get Redhat Tomcat from Redhat or Apache?

[Dennis Ruzeski]

They are not crazy but you will be jumping through a bunch of hoops you
don't need to.  There's only a very few edge cases where you might need to
compile-

Bottom line-- If you need a feature not in the packaged version, compile
your own (I would still package it.)




On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Neal Rhodes <neal at mnopltd.com> wrote:

> **
> Trying to get back on A topic which relates to linux....
>
> If you were charged with putting up a secure internal Web Services
> framework on RedHat Enterprise Linux 6.4 for a financial application, would
> you:
>
> "yum install tomcat6"
>
> or,
>
> go to Apache.org, download the sources, compile, and pray.
>
>
>  No, this is not a trick question.    I've always just used the tested
> supplied Redhat version which "just works".  But there are apparently other
> opinions, just trying to figure out if they are crazy.
>
> Neal Rhodes
> MNOP Ltd
>
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