Re: [gentoo-server] Stable Portage tree

[Petteri Räty]

Ben Munat wrote:
> Just to throw my two-devil's-advocate-cents in here, I maintain a gentoo
> server and -- though I certainly appreciate getting well-tested,
> problem-free updates -- I think the biggest problem gentoo faces is how
> far behind the curve it is. It's just plain embarassing that there are
> still no (unmasked) versions of PHP5, MySQL4.1 or 5, or Java 5/Tomcat
> 5.5 in portage... all of which have been freely available for over a year.
>

I now that for example Debian and Fedore do not support sun-jdk at all
because they can offer only free as in freedom software. The free java
is still months or years away from supporting 1.4. Tomcat 5.5 of course
is something that we should get to the main tree. It has been sitting in
the java experimental tree for quite a while. One of the reasons Tomcat
5.5 has not progressed is that our Tomcat maintainer disappeared a while
ago. I think Debian only recently added Tomcat 4 to main or something
like that.

>
> Like I say, just my .02...
>
> Ben

Regards,
Petteri Räty