tomcat5.5, 6.0 and version control

[Marcus Better <marcus@better.se>]

Hi,

I'm working on squashing some ugly bugs in tomcat5.5, and right now I've
just about had enough with the patch system. I have better things to do
with my time than regenerating patches and sorting out conflicts for every
little change. I feel that the complexity of the package has outgrown the
patch system.

So I'm simply going to make a branch in svn and work in there, with the full
source tree and no patches. (IMHO that is what version control systems are
for.) Then I will provide the result for review before uploading.

(Aaah, I'm feeling better already.)

Once this is done I would like to look at Tomcat 6, which is in alpha, but
we could make preliminary packages. However I'd like to have proper version
control from the start, and preferably a VCS with proper merging support.
Suggestions welcome, and also please tell me if you would like to help
packaging Tomcat 6.

Marcus