On Feb 19, 2010, at 8:18 AM, Curt Arnold wrote: > > On Feb 18, 2010, at 9:03 AM, Christian Grobmeier wrote: > .... >> >> On: >> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/logging/site/trunk/docs/log4j/1.2/roadmap.html >> It sounds a bit strange when it comes to: >> "Any major new features for log4j 1.2 are likely to be developed as >> companion products for log4j 1.2." >> What does it actually mean? >> > > The idea at the time was that code that required JDK 1.4 or was less mature > could live in the extras companion where it could be released more > frequently. Good intentions, but didn't go as planned.
Forgot the other motivation, to offer the features to users who had no control of the version of log4j.jar in their stack, but could add additional jars. So if you were locked into log4j 1.2.8 by your distribution or app server, you could still have the newer features by adding extras into the class path. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
