On Nov 30, 2004, at 8:23 AM, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
Geir Magnusson Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Why isn't this backwards compatible?
I'm trying to fix this, but I can't. There is no released version of log4j that has this change, and I won't have vel based on whatever we can build from head-du-jour.
You should've sit next to Stefano for a while @ ApacheCon.
My personal summary was: "Gump is not a build reporting tool. It is a social experiment..." =%-)
I tried to get exactly that point across (Project X does rely on Version n of Project Y, not the HEAD) but failed. Maybe you are more successful...
This has been the basic issue since Gump was started. It's good at showing when someone breaks an API contract, such as this case. What it can't seem to handle is the legitimate case of API breakage in major revisioning.
If log4j was doing this going from 1.2.9 to 2.0, then I'd probably have to wave off any complaints. But 1.2.9 to 1.3? sorry - I can't see why they are doing this, as they have historically been so good about smooth, manageable changes in the log4j API.
This further supports my belief that you always want to minimize dependencies.
My strategy here is to try and get them to at least give us a deprecated o.a.l.RFA for 1.3.0 so we can switch to a released version, and then immediately we switch to using the RFA in the rolling package.
The other option is to play classpath wack-a-mole and just no have any hard imports, do everything via classloader discovery, and wait until this is over...
geir
Regards Henning
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