Why would we want to do that? We need to make sure that Log4j 2 works well with Java 9, but otherwise I think this is an excellent opportunity for users to upgrade to Log4j 2.
Remko On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 11:56 PM, Paul Benedict <[email protected]> wrote: > According to this poster, it appears 1.x is not compatible with JDK 9: > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jigsaw-dev/2016-July/008654.html > > I told them I would notify our development community. So here's the > notification. :-) > > Given how widely used 1.x is still, what do you guys think of one more 1.x > release? Usually I would never entertain the suggestion, but this may be > the one time the justification makes sense. For those who still use 1.x and > have no time to upgrade to 2.x, I can't think of a better way to support > the user community than fix this issue. > > PS: Inside the post is a link to the supposed patch. > > WDYT? > > Cheers, > Paul >
