That is fine by me... Based on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1421 is seems that our metadata tooling might be too onerous for some folks, hence the packages option...
Gary On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 12:16 PM, Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe packages shouldn't be a configuration file option considering the > limitations? > > On 14 July 2017 at 13:58, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi All: > > > > We document "packages" as: > > > > A comma separated list of package names to search for plugins. Plugins > are > > only loaded once per classloader so changing this value may not have any > > effect upon reconfiguration. > > > > That seems quite restrictive: > > > > - Start app without "packages" in Log4j config > > - Reconfigure with "packages" in Log4j config > > - "packages" are not picked up > > > > Is that what would happen? > > > > Gary > > > > > > -- > Matt Sicker <[email protected]> >
