Have you considered updating your DatedFileAppender with the new rolling appenders in the o.a.l.rolling package? The classes derived from o.a.log4j.RollingFileAppender have been deprecated. New and more flexible alternatives are available in o.a.log4j.rolling.
Please note that DatedFileAppender extends FileAppender and not RollingFileAppender. I downloaded version 1.3 and DatedFileAppender works with the new code.
I had a look at the rolling code. From what I can tell the principle design is the same as before. You start with a base file and rename it periodically (I see that you have added compression capabilities as well). I like how you have moved the triggers and policies into separate classes.
What would be a very useful feature would be a configuration option for all of the rolling loggers (but especially useful for the time based loggers) that would cause the logger to use the formatted file name with a number or date right away (the way the Tomcat FileLogger does) instead of renaming a base file name to one with a number or date. This would eliminate the need for my DatedFileAppender and would extend the flexibility of Log4j quite a bit.
Geoff
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