On 2012-11-20 04:13, Jason van Zyl wrote:
> 
> On Nov 19, 2012, at 8:44 PM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Jason van Zyl <ja...@tesla.io> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Nov 19, 2012, at 8:29 PM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Do we have, right now, either:
>>>>
>>>> 1) A way of mapping java-commons-logging to the mojo log API, or
>>>>
>>>
>>> Do you mean commons-logging, JUL, or both? There are ways to adapt both to 
>>> SLF4J.
>>
>> The former, but it doesn't matter.
>>
>> If I add a dependency, in a plugin, that uses commons-logging, I want
>> to map the log messages from that dependency to the mojo log, so that
>> they look right even with Maven 3.0.x.
> 
> If memory serves, commons-logging will look for Log4j, then JUL, and if 
> neither of those are present then a NoOp implementation is selected. So in 
> our case, most people being 1.4+, the JDK implementation will be chosen and 
> the default for JUL is to output to the console so they will come out with 
> the rest of the output but the formatting will be slightly different. 
> Probably nothing horrible.

It's very easy for an application to explicitly use the simplelog
implementation in commons-logging. The formatting for it can be tweaked
to look like Maven's normal console logging. No added dependency is
needed, just a couple of properties files. I can help to set this up.

>> I appreciate that as of 3.1 I
>> can just use the usual jcl-over-slf4j (or jul or whatever) and the
>> messages will end up in the right-ish place, though not associated
>> with the mojo. I was hoping for
>>
> 
> No mojo specific logging is present right now. It's just all using SLF4J but 
> no real hierarchy, or markers have been established. So for 3.1.0 and before 
> the output is going to look more or less the same.
> 
>>    plugin code calls (e.g.) CXF code calls SLF4J calls
>> something-we-lack calls mojo log calls SLF4J calls SLF4J-simple (in
>> 3.1)
>>
>> and
>>
>>
>>  plugin code calls (e.g.) CXF code calls SLF4J calls
>> something-we-lack calls mojo log calls whatever we have today (in 2.x
>> or 3.0.x)
>>
> 
> In both cases now it's just all going to come out on the console.
> 
>>
>>
>>>
>>>> 2) A way of mapping slf4j to the mojo log?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Mojo.getLog() feeds into SLF4J with the code on trunk.
>>>
>>>> ?
>>>>
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>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Jason
>>>
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> Thanks,
> 
> Jason
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