Ceki, and all,
The article that describes how to incorporate slf4j into Eclipse
plug-ins has been posted in EclipseZone
<http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t55300.html> today.
I agree to the contributers license. Once I figured out how to
integrate into the slf4j build, I'll make proposal here for your review.
John
Ceki Gülcü wrote:
At 08:34 PM 11/23/2005, John Franey wrote:
I don't think it is a stupid question.
Flexibility. A plug-in developed using SLF4J as an external plug-in
can swap between SLF4J variants (jdk, log4j, nlog4j, custom). A
plug-in which embeds an SLF4J library will be bound to use the
corresponding framework. I think an RCP developer would prefer the
former plug-in, only because the RCP developer can chose which
framework the application would use.
Memory/disk footprint: If every plug-in embedded a logger library....
Runtime confusion in Eclipse: If every plug-in with a logging
library exported it, Eclipse would non-deterministically select one,
any one, to satisfy another plug-ins import.
Those are main reasons.
Makes sense. Thanks for the explanation.
Although you do not have to, you could license the code to slf4j.org
so that it could distribute your code. Alternatively, you could
chose to distribute your code on your own.
I will think this over. I currently leaning towards licensing the
code for slf4j to distribute. What does it mean to license the code,
according to slf4j? (My stupid question for the day).
Very succinctly, the idea is similar if not identical to what the ASF
does. The ASF requires contributors to license their contribution to
the ASF in such a way that the ASF can legally redistribute it. For
more details, see http://apache.org/licenses/icla.txt in particular
sections 2, 4 and 5. (Replace "foundation" by "slf4j.org").
This is a very rough sketch, please do not hesitate to ask questions
if anything is unclear. Once you agree to the contributors license, we
could proceed to create an account for you.
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