I've heard people complain that log4net is too difficult to setup... Perhaps we could add a new configurator that would setup a very basic log4net environment that uses a single FileAppender and just the root logger. The values would be settable via add nodes:
<appSettings> <add key="log4net.AppSettingsConfigurator.File" value="log.txt" /> <add key="log4net.AppSettingsConfigurator.AppendToFile" value="false" /> <add key="log4net.AppSettingsConfigurator.Layout" value="%d %l %m%n" /> </appSettings> log4net would be configured using this: log4net.Config.AppSettingsConfigurator.Configure(); That would allow a complete functioning log4net setup in just 5 lines. A more advanced setup might be: <appSettings> <add key="log4net.AppSettingsConfigurator" value="UdpAppender" /> <add key="log4net.AppSettingsConfigurator.RemoteAddress value=" value="127.0.0.1" /> <add key="log4net.AppSettingsConfigurator.RemotePort" value="8080" /> <add key="log4net.AppSettingsConfigurator.LayoutType" value="log4net.Layout.XmlLayoutSchemaLog4j" /> </appSettings> I don't think we should support any more configurability past this point. If the user wants/needs more flexibility they should use a log4net section in their App.Config or a seperate log4net.config file. There's nothing more frustrating when working with a new component than not being able to get the most basic setup working. Comments? - Ron
