That's exactly what I had pointed out in the original thread. :-)
>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>Von: gert.drie...@telenet.be [mailto:gert.drie...@telenet.be]
>Gesendet: Mittwoch, 5. Februar 2014 22:15
>An: Log4NET Dev
>Betreff: Re: Thoughts on 1.3
>
>Hey Miljenko,
>
>I don't think it makes sense to create a separate "client-profile" version.
>MS has already abandoned this:
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc656912(v=vs.110).aspx
>
>Perhaps you were referring to a portable class library ?
>
>Cheers,
>Gert
>
>----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
>Van: "Miljenko Cvjetko" <mcvje...@holisticware.net>
>Aan: "Log4NET Dev" <log4net-dev@logging.apache.org>
>Verzonden: Dinsdag 4 februari 2014 14:44:00
>Onderwerp: Re: Thoughts on 1.3
>
>Hi
>
>On 2014.02.04 13:24, w...@poczta.fm wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> If You work on port of log4net to Xamarin You may find helpful the patch
>attached to LOG4NET-338 "Port of log4net for MonoDroid"
>(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4NET-338).
>I saw Your patch after I was finished. AndroidAppender was almost the same.
>> My port does not change the structure of the library however some parts
>may still work for You.
>I was b bit more "radical" and intrusive, so I split the lib into client
>profile and non-client profile.
>
>pozdrawiam
>
>Mel
>>
>> Regards
>> Wojciech Dec
>>
>>
>> Od: "Miljenko Cvjetko" <mcvje...@holisticware.net>
>> Do: log4net-dev@logging.apache.org;
>> Wysłane: 15:47 Poniedziałek 2014-02-03
>> Temat: Thoughts on 1.3
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I have tried to post this one through the nabble on Nov 25th and 26th.
>>> My post are still there as "not accepted". Then I got dragged away with
>>> projects, then holidays and again projects. Now I have a bit easier, so
>>> I’d like to add few thoughts.
>>>
>>> My name is Miljenko Cvjetko and I'm the one that forked log4net on
>>> GitHub, did some structural changes on the solution/project in order to
>>> "port" it to Xamarin Mobile profiles (Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android)
>>> and contacted Stefan for a permission to submit log4net Xamarin
>>> Component to Xamarin Componet Store.
>>>
>>> Stefan asked me whether I can put some thoughts and more light on the
>>> subject in this thread about the Version 1.3.
>>>
>>> There were several questions both on mailing-lists and forums about
>>> availability of the log4net for Mono Mobile profiles (Xamarin Mobile)
>>> and I was personally faced with that issue when our team worked on
>>> Application that uses mobile port of SharpSNMP, which uses log4net. The
>>> quick and dirty workaround was to exclude the dependency (and
>comment it
>>> out).
>>>
>>> The era of mobile enterprise apps is about to begin and a lot of code
>>> will be ported from desktop and server side (ASP.net) to mobile in order
>>> to reuse code. Almost all utilities/libraries/tools for .net have
>>> disadvantage/handicap that they are written for desktop and/or ASP.net,
>>> thus using APIs and/or concepts that are not acceptable or possible on
>>> mobile devices. To name some: System.Web assembly (used by log4net)
>and
>>> Configuration utilities which need Xml support.
>>>
>>> What I actually did is simply split log4net into 2 assemblies, the one
>>> with client profile called log4net.client and the other with only
>>> ASP.net specific stuff with old name log4net. The code was
>>> source-linked, so log4net was for external usage the same as it used to be.
>>>
>>> All unit tests passed w/o problems.
>>>
>>> So I would suggest You to do as Stefan suggested:
>>>
>>> 1. "to split log4net-13.dll so that the main assembly can be used for
>>> the client profile and a separate assembly contains the stuff that
>>> requires System.Web - this way we no longer need the -cp builds."
>>>
>>> 2. add separate assemblies for async/await (netfx 4.5, mono 3.x), so
>>> people are not forced into 4.5.
>>>
>>> I have worked with log4net on Xamarin's alpha channel for last 2 months
>>> and experienced no problems only stuff I would suggest to add async
>>> wrappers (suggestion 2.).
>>>
>>> Also Stefan asked me to merge code into 1.2.x (1.2.13) branch, so I'll
>>> do that in next few days and issue pull request as soon as I'm done. I
>>> will try to be least intrusive, so will probably end up with:
>>>
>>> 1. src folder with ASP.net project (dependencies), so it is the same for
>>> regression and backward compatibility
>>> 2. src-client (or whatever) with client profile - this might be even PCL
>>> - I have to see.
>>> 3. src-mobile for iOS and Android assemblies.
>>>
>>> Xamarin Component stuff will be added later on.
>>>
>>> I hope I did not bother You too much and thank You
>>>
>>> best regards
>>>
>>> Mel
>>>
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>>
>>
>
>
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