Increased modularity is the OSGi way, but it's also a hard thing to convince people of. I've met many developers (notably Spring fanboys) that are still in a monolithic classpath mindset of "why bother splitting this up?"
Anyways, Ralph, are you proposing spinning out the non-core stuff into a single Logging Services project, or multiple ones that can be released as needed? On 30 September 2016 at 12:05, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Right, hence this thread ;-) I am not hot about having multiple builds > FYIW. > > Gary > > On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Oh wait, Ralph is talking about something else entirely. >> >> On 30 September 2016 at 11:58, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I think log4j-nosql could be merged into log4j-core. >>> >>> On 30 September 2016 at 11:50, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Ralph recently mentions that he'd like some modules removed while Matt >>>> mentioned merging some back into Core. >>>> >>>> Shall we discuss this on the ML instead of Jira? >>>> >>>> I could also see doing an uber jar (mod the mutually exclusive jars) >>>> and reorging the system with a smaller core (everything except appenders), >>>> an all-appenders module, and/or what some folks have mentioned: one module >>>> per appender (yikes!) >>>> >>>> What are all the options we should consider? >>>> >>>> Personally and for the current projects I have involved in, an uber jar >>>> with optional deps is the simplest to deal with. If I had to do an app for >>>> a light bulb, I'd think differently ;-) >>>> >>>> (Let's leave Java 9 modules out of the discussion!) >>>> >>>> Gary >>>> >>>> -- >>>> E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org >>>> Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition >>>> <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> >>>> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> >>>> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> >>>> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com >>>> Home: http://garygregory.com/ >>>> Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> >> > > > > -- > E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org > Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition > <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> > JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> > Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> > Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com > Home: http://garygregory.com/ > Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory > -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
