Hervé Boutemy created MNG-6093:
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Summary: create a slf4j-simple provider extension that supports
level color rendering
Key: MNG-6093
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-6093
Project: Maven
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: Logging
Reporter: Hervé Boutemy
With color support, core Maven and plugins do general message colorization (or
more high-level "message styling" through maven-shared-utils)
slf4j provider however has to add color:
- for log level output (DEBUG/INFO/WARNING/ERROR)
- for stacktrace rendering
That's why we use Gossip slf4j provider: it has sufficient little extension
points to add this (see
http://maven.apache.org/ref/3-LATEST/maven-embedder/apidocs/org/apache/maven/cli/logging/impl/gossip/package-summary.html
)
The issue with switching to Gossip slf4j provider is that people don't know it
and it does not have the same features as slf4j-simple, the configuration file
is not the same (name nor content).
But the extension points are not that big: if slf4j-simple provider just made a
few methods protected instread of private, it would be extensible
What if we just copy slf4j-simple to change the signatures and create small
extension classes? The license permits it, we can try it and eventually see
with slf4j if the modification can go into official release
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