I thought our convention was that we were free to break compatibility within the spi package, but that we tried to maintain compatibility for public classes/interfaces outside of that package.
-----Original Message----- From: Ceki Gülcü [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 2/22/2005 12:30 PM To: Log4J Developers List; Log4J Developers List Cc: Subject: Re: Reverting Appender interface Hello Curt, I am in the process of recovering from a hardware faulire. Sorry for not responding earlier. We are allowed to break existing implementations of Appenders. Existing implementations of Appender need to keep up if they want to be compatible. Please do not revert this change without further discussion. Thanks, At 05:50 PM 2/22/2005, Curt Arnold wrote: >The recent breaking change to the Appender interface had no or little >discussion before being committed. I do not think it is desirable to >break existing implementations of Appender without such a discussion. > >I'd like to propose attempting to restore the Appender interface to its >previous state. I think it is likely this could be done without reverting >all the changes to the appender implementations with appropriate >redirection in AppenderSkeleton. -- Ceki Gülcü The complete log4j manual: http://www.qos.ch/log4j/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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