Paul Duffin wrote:
RA>> ... The JUnit project suffered a big impact when the assert
RA>> keyword was introduced in jdk1.4 (the same case as log4j
PD> Thanks for explaining that, that is obviously a problem with the
PD> java compilers ...
PD> However, there is an option to the JDK 1.4 compiler which allows it
PD> to use the old 1.3 syntax. Until such time as JUnit, or Log4j wanted
PD> to use the new syntax the old methods could have been kept and
PD> deprecated.

If you use that option, you're forcing all the jdk1.4 users to use  it
too for they code to compile. Not that I'm saying it's a bad thing,
just pointing out one of the consequences.

PD>Once you have the adapters sorted out it would be very easy to write
PD>versions of them for the different versions of log4j.
So, I think that we should focus on defining a way to implement
adapters easily. I can go further and propose the published api to be
an adapter to the current version.

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