tomcat 5.5

[Markus Schönhaber]

Derek Broughton wrote:

> That's _expert_ experience thank you.

Oops.

>> once what you do not know, 
> 
> I don't have _recent_ experience, but I can only say that if that's the
> attitude the tomcat users are taking now, it's gone way down hill]

OK, you don't really know what you're talking about but you have an
expert insight to share. Thanks.

>> and once your personal preference.
> 
> No, again that's expert experience.

Oops.

> Installing tomcat from apt is trivial. 
> If I'd just been stating personal preference, I'd have said so.  It is
> _fact_ that it's simpler to install Tomcat from apt.  

No, it's no fact at all, but simply your personal expert preference.
I'm really astonished that it doesn't seem to occur to you that what
people call easy might be quite different depending on whom you ask, and
that it may even be different from your expert opinion.
Granted, the upstream archive has to be manually downloaded. But OTOH
after untaring it, I know where things are, which makes it easier for me
to actually use it.
BTW: the most interesting thing wrt this point is that, until now, I
never said a single word which stated that one way ore the other was
easier (although you falsely claimed otherwise in a previous post).
Maybe, if you hadn't been so busy with telling me what an
expertish expert you are, you might have actually noticed that.

Anyway, I admit that I have made a mistake. I didn't take into account
that you're an expert and that therefore every opinion you share has to
be taken as a fact and must not, under no circumstances, be commented in
a way that might be (mis)interpreted as contradiction.

Regards
  mks