On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 21:38 +0100, Joerg Hohwiller wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jörg Schaible wrote: > > Hi Robert, > > > > robert burrell donkin wrote on Saturday, November 12, 2005 2:00 PM: > > > > [snip] > > > > > >>>* Consider Joerg Schaible/Joerg Hohwiller's "getChildLogger" > >>>proposal. I'm tempted not to include this, though. Getting a release > >>>out is probably the highest priority. > >> > >>IMHO i need to be certain that everything's exactly right > >>before i'm willing to commit it. i was trying to work through > >>the issues and making sure i understood them but this went a > >>bit quiet. > >> > >>either of the two Joerg's around to advocate it's inclusion? > > > > > > My original proposal was to add getName to the Log interface, but I used it > > to create a "getChildLogger" functionality. Joerg Howiller added a new > > LogFactory interface extending Log to ensure backward compatibility, where > > this new functionality and other things have been added. > > > > To use the new functionality I have to cast every Log instance, but since I > > might also have to deal with an implementation of another party, I cannot > > rely on it. So for my personal use case, this solution is also not > > appropriate, since in such a case I still have no valid fallback. I > > understand now, that my naive first proposal would backward break > > compatibility I would rather wait for a 2.0 version of JCL to add this. > > That version might break compatibility anyway (and might therefore also > > need new package names). > > > > - Jörg > Hi there, > am still a little busy on other projects and private stuff but I am still on > it.
glad to hear that > I am very keen on the issue (my proposal) but I definitivly agree that > small steps (first a release without such new stuff and then take some time > to think where we are definitvily going for the long run) makes sense. +1 i'll pull something together about what's need for this release on the wiki. thanks for the (snipped) manifesto :) i think it's better that the discussion is left until the current code is released (so i won't comment now) - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
