Robert,

Thanks for your reasoned reply.  From a quick search of the mailing 
list, it seems that well-thought out replies are common from yourself ;)

I probably shouldn't have posted my hasty email before - from reading 
now, I can see how it looked like a troll.

I guess I was wondering why jakarta allows two different logging 
toolkits.  If there is an advantage of the avalon one over log4j, then I 
would like to hear the differences.  If these advantage can be rolled 
into log4j - then we should do that.

It just seems like there is a lot of duplication of code (which the 
Open-Source movement is supposed to address), and I was frustrated that 
yet another toolkit was being released.

So my (more reasoned) questions are:

- what differences & advantages / disadvantages do one toolkit have over 
the other?

- what prevents this toolkits being rolled into one?

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,
Scott



robert burrell donkin wrote:

> <warning>if you'd asked that question in that way on any other jakarta 
> list expect to be flamed</warning>
> 
> it all comes down to history and priorities. (that's all i'm going to 
> say so it's no use trying to draw me into a flame war.)
> 
> - robert
> 
> On Saturday, February 2, 2002, at 01:49 AM, Scott Farquhar wrote:
> 
>> Can anyone explain why this toolkit exists?
>>
>> http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/logkit/index.html
>>
>> Seems like a straight rip-off from log4j?
>>
>> -- Scott Farquhar :: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> Atlassian :: http://www.atlassian.com
>>      Supporting YOUR J2EE World
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> To unsubscribe, e-mail:   <mailto:log4j-dev-
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:log4j-dev-
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
> 
> 
> -- 
> To unsubscribe, e-mail:   <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> 


-- 
Scott Farquhar :: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Atlassian :: http://www.atlassian.com
      Supporting YOUR J2EE World



--
To unsubscribe, e-mail:   <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Reply via email to