From: Paulo Gaspar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Configuration is not done by a components, therefore it is
> > outside the scope of the common-logging package.
>
> I still do not get WHY you really need to impose such
> limitations.
1) The more you add the more you have to support.
If someone adds code to commons-logging to do basic
configuration, then commons has to support it.
You have to make sure it's not creating security problems.
You have to support it for any future logging kits that
commons-logging supports.
2) The more you add the more users expect.
It's a "slippery slope".
If you add a bit of configuration, then people want
"a bit more".
3) The more you add, the more people have to download.
The idea is to keep the component small.
4) We don't need YetAnotherLoggingAPI.
This is a minimal wrapper around a few logging toolkits.
If you keep adding more functionality, you end up replicating
log4j/logkit. We don't need that.
5) If you add it, you've got to do it properly.
What methods will you add?
setConfigurationFile( String filename )
What about the SimpleLog, how do you configure that?
What about logging kits that don't use file based
configuration?
Once you walk that path, there's a heck of a lot
of work do to.
This component has a purpose.
It fulfills that purpose without needing a configuration
mechanism.
Don't go adding one.
At some point you need to draw a line in the sand and say
"This is the scope of the project"
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