So what I am hearing is that until we bump core to require JDK6 (or 7) then logback is the only runner from a technical point of view (never mind that log4j2 is still not GA)
OTOH I would be interested in bumping JDK all the way to 7 if we were happy that toolchains is good enough and we had tests in play that use toolchains On Tuesday, 16 July 2013, Arnaud Héritier wrote: > Hi > > FYI I rebased both branches on current master : > * > > https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=maven.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/slf4j-log4j2 > * > > https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=maven.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/slf4j-logback > With all work done by Herve both branches have only one interesting commit > to update few deps. > > If you want to test them I shared some archives : > * > > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/501043/apache-maven-3.2-SNAPSHOT-log4j2-bin.tar.gz > * > > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/501043/apache-maven-3.2-SNAPSHOT-log4j2-bin.zip > * > > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/501043/apache-maven-3.2-SNAPSHOT-logback-bin.tar.gz > * > > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/501043/apache-maven-3.2-SNAPSHOT-logback-bin.zip > (You just have to replace the non-color config file in conf/logging by the > -color one) > > LOG4J2 has 2 issues : > ** It requires Java 6 (while our core is always requiring Java 5 for now) > ** beta 7 and beta 8 aren't supporting some methods we used in our > integration : > [WARNING] setRootLoggerLevel: operation not supported > [WARNING] reset(): operation not supported > > Cheers > > ----- > Arnaud Héritier > http://aheritier.net > Mail/GTalk: aheritier AT gmail DOT com > Twitter/Skype : aheritier > -- Sent from my phone
