A belated +1 (Melbourne had a rare "long weekend" due to a horse race.... it rained a lot if anyone's interested: http://www.theage.com.au/ftimages/2004/11/02/1099362129349.html)
cheers, Paul > -----Original Message----- > From: Ceki Gülcü [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 7:27 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [POLL] a 1.2.9 release? > > > Hi all, > > For reasons explained at http://www.qos.ch/logging/replacingCategory.html, > in log4j version 1.2.x, the Category class was not tagged with the > @deprecated javadoc tag in the source code. This voluntary omission > led to a situation where users could still refer to the Category class > without deprecation warnings being generated by the java > compiler. Consequently, some users unfortunately still continue to > refer to the Category class. > > We have marked in red and in bold that users should drop references to > the Category class and use Logger instead. However, us shouting about > this important point does not tell the java compiler to enforce > it. Since we cannot mark the Category class as @deprecated in the > javadocs, the only compiler-enforced way of pushing users to migrate > to the Logger class is to tag those methods in the Category class that > have Category as their return value in their signature. These methods > are: > > static public Category getRoot(); > static public Category getInstance(String name); > static public Category getInstance(Class clazz); > > Unfortunately, log4j versions up to and including 1.2.8 did not mark > these methods as deprecated. As such, I would like to release a new > version in the 1.2 series, namely 1.2.9, which will mark these methods > as deprecated. Would you approve such a release? > > Assuming log4j version 1.2.9 is approved, then we can assume that > users of 1.2.9 will only refer to the Logger class. If that is the > case, their code will compile and run without change with log4j 1.3 > even if the Category class is removed. > > > -- > Ceki Gülcü > > For log4j documentation consider "The complete log4j manual" > http://www.qos.ch/shop/products/eclm/ > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
