Re: 1.3 - A Line in the Sand

2007-04-05 Thread Jess Holle
Paul Smith wrote: On 05/04/2007, at 6:51 AM, Jess Holle wrote: I didn't know about the MDC treatment -- I'll have to look into that. Otherwise, I knew that #2 and #3 were covered by the existing Chainsaw. I just didn't want to give up any of that to get #1 covered -- and don't personally

Re: 1.3 - A Line in the Sand

2007-04-04 Thread Paul Smith
log4j 1.3 in my opinion is stuck in a hopeless position. It is too incompatible with log4j 1.2.x to ever be recommended as a drop-in replacement for log4j 1.2 in a production environment. However, if you changed log4j 1.3 to be drop-in compatible with log4j 1.2, then you would break

Re: 1.3 - A Line in the Sand

2007-04-04 Thread Ceki Gülcü
At 07:10 AM 4/3/2007, Jacob Kjome wrote: I think it's been said before that 1.3 may be more of a dead end than anything else. Some interesting things went into it, but the fact that it became so incompatible with Log4j-1.2.xx is a real problem. Is it worth a release or do we just leave it

Re: 1.3 - A Line in the Sand

2007-04-04 Thread Ceki Gülcü
At 09:09 AM 4/3/2007, Paul Smith wrote: My somewhat superficial scan over logback shows a lot of promise from an end user point of view. I would certainly be interested in exploring that as an option. This is where licenses, politics and marketing all come to a head which are never fun. :-)

Re: 1.3 - A Line in the Sand

2007-04-04 Thread Ceki Gülcü
At 07:51 PM 4/3/2007, Curt Arnold wrote: There are still API incompatibilities (http://people.apache.org/ ~carnold/compatibility.html), particularly any user extensions of DOMConfigurator (bug 39024) would not work with log4j 1.3. LoggingEvent is not serialization compatible (bug 35159).

Re: 1.3 - A Line in the Sand

2007-04-04 Thread Ceki Gülcü
At 11:34 PM 4/3/2007, Curt Arnold wrote: Unfortunately, log4j 1.3 development proceed for a substantial amount of time with little concern with compatibility with compatibility with log4j 1.2 and the primary developer of log4j 1.3 has left for other projects. We are left trying to remedy the

Re: 1.3 - A Line in the Sand

2007-04-04 Thread Ceki Gülcü
At 11:58 PM 4/3/2007, Jess Holle wrote: Cu For a 1.4.x or 2.0.x, I'm not so concerned about breaking extensions. I'm more concerned about breaking application code -- i.e. use of the logging APIs for logging and for configuration thereof, including sophisticated code that adds hierarchy

Re: 1.3 - A Line in the Sand

2007-04-04 Thread Ceki Gülcü
At 06:51 AM 4/4/2007, Jacob Kjome wrote: Yes, I've found the drop log4j for logback stuff from Ceki a bit disheartening. Well, actually I found the whole sudden split from Log4j after a vote that didn't go his way a bit disheartening. I think the vote went the correct way, but I wish we

Re: 1.3 - A Line in the Sand

2007-04-04 Thread Jess Holle
Ceki Gülcü wrote: At 07:10 AM 4/3/2007, Jacob Kjome wrote: I think it's been said before that 1.3 may be more of a dead end than anything else. Some interesting things went into it, but the fact that it became so incompatible with Log4j-1.2.xx is a real problem. Is it worth a release or do

RE: 1.3 - A Line in the Sand

2007-04-04 Thread Scott Deboy
: 503.224.7496 Cell: 503.997.1367 Fax:503.222.0185 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.comotivsystems.com -Original Message- From: Jess Holle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 4/4/2007 1:20 PM To: Log4J Developers List Subject: Re: 1.3 - A Line in the Sand Ceki Gülcü wrote: At 07

Re: 1.3 - A Line in the Sand

2007-04-04 Thread Jess Holle
Ceki Gülcü wrote: I'd be keen to consider starting Chainsaw v3 from scratch along side any post-log4j1.3-type operation and build in exceptional support for enterprise log management, but I'm only one person, and I know many of us are incredibly busy, but we were so active there for a while I

RE: 1.3 - A Line in the Sand

2007-04-04 Thread Scott Deboy
: Re: 1.3 - A Line in the Sand Ceki Gülcü wrote: I'd be keen to consider starting Chainsaw v3 from scratch along side any post-log4j1.3-type operation and build in exceptional support for enterprise log management, but I'm only one person, and I know many of us are incredibly busy, but we were

Re: 1.3 - A Line in the Sand

2007-04-04 Thread Jess Holle
: 503.224.7496 Cell: 503.997.1367 Fax:503.222.0185 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.comotivsystems.com -Original Message- From: Jess Holle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 4/4/2007 1:29 PM To: Log4J Developers List Subject: Re: 1.3 - A Line in the Sand Ceki Gülcü wrote: I'd

RE: 1.3 - A Line in the Sand

2007-04-04 Thread Gary Gregory
-Original Message- From: Jess Holle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 1:21 PM To: Log4J Developers List Subject: Re: 1.3 - A Line in the Sand Ceki Gülcü wrote: At 07:10 AM 4/3/2007, Jacob Kjome wrote: I think it's been said before that 1.3 may be more

Re: 1.3 - A Line in the Sand

2007-04-03 Thread Paul Smith
I think it's been said before that 1.3 may be more of a dead end than anything else. Some interesting things went into it, but the fact that it became so incompatible with Log4j-1.2.xx is a real problem. Is it worth a release or do we just leave it as-is, forever alpha, and move on to

Re: 1.3 - A Line in the Sand

2007-04-03 Thread Noel Grandin
Hi I'm just an end-user of log4j, so I have no perspective on the internal dev issues. But from the POV of a programmer who uses log4j in many projects, I have to say that it's pretty great the way it is!! It may simply be that log4j as it currently stands is good enough for the vast majority

Re: 1.3 - A Line in the Sand

2007-04-03 Thread Jess Holle
Largely I won't disagree. That said, I think there is a point to having a new log4j version that is almost entirely API (source and binary) compatible with log4j 1.2.14, but: 1. Has finer-grained synchronization and eliminates some possibilities that currently exist for deadlocks,

RE: 1.3 - A Line in the Sand

2007-04-03 Thread Gary Gregory
-Original Message- From: Jacob Kjome [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 10:11 PM To: Log4J Developers List Subject: Re: 1.3 - A Line in the Sand At 07:07 PM 4/2/2007, you wrote: At some point we can no longer ignore the decision about where 1.3 should go

Re: 1.3 - A Line in the Sand

2007-04-03 Thread Curt Arnold
On Apr 2, 2007, at 7:07 PM, Paul Smith wrote: At some point we can no longer ignore the decision about where 1.3 should go. I am beginning to think that we should scale back 1.3 to be less of the planned revolution and more of a substantial-update-but- completely-backward compatible (to

Re: 1.3 - A Line in the Sand

2007-04-03 Thread Curt Arnold
On Apr 3, 2007, at 9:33 AM, Jess Holle wrote: Largely I won't disagree. That said, I think there is a point to having a new log4j version that is almost entirely API (source and binary) compatible with log4j 1.2.14, but: Has finer-grained synchronization and eliminates some possibilities

Re: 1.3 - A Line in the Sand

2007-04-03 Thread Jacob Kjome
At 12:51 PM 4/3/2007, you wrote: On Apr 2, 2007, at 7:07 PM, Paul Smith wrote: log4j 1.3 in my opinion is stuck in a hopeless position. It is too incompatible with log4j 1.2.x to ever be recommended as a drop-in replacement for log4j 1.2 in a production environment. However, if you changed

1.3 - A Line in the Sand

2007-04-02 Thread Paul Smith
At some point we can no longer ignore the decision about where 1.3 should go. I am beginning to think that we should scale back 1.3 to be less of the planned revolution and more of a substantial-update-but- completely-backward compatible (to a point). We can then step back and think way

Re: 1.3 - A Line in the Sand

2007-04-02 Thread Jacob Kjome
At 07:07 PM 4/2/2007, you wrote: At some point we can no longer ignore the decision about where 1.3 should go. I am beginning to think that we should scale back 1.3 to be less of the planned revolution and more of a substantial-update-but- completely-backward compatible (to a point). I think