Mike Schilli's response, forwarded with permission.
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Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 12:07:58 -0500
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ceki Gülcü), [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: logging.apache.org
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In a message dated 1/24/2003 4:35:52 PM Eastern Standard Time, Ceki Gülcü <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I am seriously considering the creation a top-level Apache project
>focused on logging. This project would be located at
>logging.apache.org and would group some or many of the log4X projects
>out there.
That sounds like the right thing to do -- right now it's difficult to locate the different incarnations of log4X and to determine their maturity. What's the status of log4j for C++? Do they have a mailing list? A stable build? I have no idea. Having a central location for all of them makes a lot of sense.
>This would make it easier for us to consult each other. One of my
>dreams -- a heretic dream -- has been to be able to log across
>language boundaries. One of the stated goals of logging@Apache would
>be cross-language logging. For example, you log in one language but
>read another, as in write in log4Perl and read in log4j or vice
>versa. Another variant is to use a remote appender written in another
>language...
Kevin and I consulted with each other on this one and it turned out we're both not exactly sure what you mean. Sure, you can write your program in one language, issue the log statements there and have log4X forward them (via XMLRPC or SOAP as Kevin suggested) to remote appenders, maybe written in different languages. Is that what you're intending? Would be great if you could elaborate a bit on this one.
Having a nicely-written language-independant log4X standard, which all log4X implementations have to adhere to (as a lowest common denominator), on the other end, I see as a huge potential benefit.
>Would you be interested to join logging.apache.org and make it happen?
Yeah, as long as there's no work involved :). But seriously, we're definitely interested in hooking up with the other log4X folks -- we'd just need to flesh out the concept a bit.
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