On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 23:26 +0000, robert burrell donkin wrote:
> the last JCL release (1.0.4) was back in june 2004. since then a lot of
> work has been put in by the commons logging team analysing the
> limitations and deficiencies of that release and of the dynamic binding
> approach to bridging API's in general. it's taken some time but progress
> has been made and (as importantly) the theoretical limitations of this
> approach are now well understood.
>
> a release is now well overdue. due to the significant improvements made,
> it is proposed that this release will be JCL 1.1. a release plan will be
> assembled on the wiki
> (http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-commons/Logging/1.1.0ReleasePlan) and a
> release candidate cut once it has been prepared. i'm happy to volunteer
> to act as release manager.
>
> here my +1
+1
Note also that there are a few minor incompatibilities between the
proposed 1.1 and the former 1.0.4 for code that *extends*
commons-logging classes hence the minor number change is probably
necessary. For most users, though, the current SVN head code is a
compatible upgrade.
Note also that this release would clear the way for potentially more
significant rearchitecture of Logging; a number of ideas have been
floated based particularly around distributing a separate jar for each
supported library ("static binding"). However before getting started on
this it seems a good idea to release a less ambitious update containing
the accumulated fixes to the existing design.
Cheers,
Simon
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