There's a new Jira for this now: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-833
Patches welcome! :-) Sent from my iPhone > On 2014/09/17, at 19:08, Mikael Ståldal <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I guess that most Log4j users are not going to read the comments in the POM. > >> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 3:34 AM, Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote: >> We'd certainly like to improve this in the documentation and have been >> discussing it recently. I made sure to add a bunch of comments (which >> inspired others to do the same afterward) to the pom file to note what each >> dependency was used for. >> >>> On 16 September 2014 02:39, Mikael Ståldal >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> log4j-core has quite some Maven dependencies declared with >>> <optional>true</optional>. E.g. Jackson. >>> >>> Is that really wise? I see a risk that users of Log4j is not aware if this >>> and will get ClassNotFoundException:s at runtime. >>> >>> http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-optional-and-excludes-dependencies.html >>> >>> -- >>> Mikael Ståldal >>> Chief Software Architect >>> Appear >>> Phone: +46 8 545 91 572 >>> Email: [email protected] >> >> >> >> -- >> Matt Sicker <[email protected]> > > > > -- > Mikael Ståldal > Chief Software Architect > Appear > Phone: +46 8 545 91 572 > Email: [email protected]
