On Dec 1, 2012, at 2:17 PM, Olivier Lamy <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2012/12/1 Jason van Zyl <[email protected]>:
>> On Dec 1, 2012, at 1:44 PM, Olivier Lamy <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>>>
>>>> I don't think that's particularly easy and additionally opens us up to
>>>> having to specifically support any SLF4J implementation which I don't
>>>> think is wise.
>>>>
>>> if documented that's not really complicated.
>>>
>>
>> So the process would be:
>>
> Did you check build distrib link I provide or git branch ?
>> - downloads the new implementation
> no. implementations are already here in separate directories.
>> - change the configuration
> no, default configuration files for 3 impl are here.
>> - use a command line parameter
> only configure MAVEN_OPTS envvar (not having to repeat that for each
> maven invocation)
>
> and modify it if you want to try an other.
>
I don't think we should avoid the discussion of picking an implementation by
shipping them all.
I'm not in favour of shipping all the implementations.
>
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>>> this could be nice for ci servers to get logs easily.
>>
>> A single good implementation would also work.
>>
>>> We already have eventspy to intercept build informations so why not
>>> having something else for logs.
>>
>> The mechanism for the event spy is just putting an extension on the
>> classpath. If you wanted to leverage the existing mechanism you can just put
>> the JARs in the ${MAVEN_HOME}/lib/ext directory along with making your
>> configuration available, but you're going to have to remove the other SLF4J
>> implementation or you're going to get the duplicate binding exception. Not a
>> huge deal.
>>
>> So you can already add a new implementation of SLF4J right now using the
>> mechanism that exists without anything additional. No modification of the
>> classwords configuration or a command line parameters which gives it parity
>> with the event spy if that's what you're looking for.
>>
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>> Jason van Zyl
>> Founder & CTO, Sonatype
>> Founder, Apache Maven
>> http://twitter.com/jvanzyl
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>>
>> A man enjoys his work when he understands the whole and when he
>> is responsible for the quality of the whole
>>
>> -- Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language
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Thanks,
Jason
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