On Sep 23, 2011, at 2:07 AM, Dominik Psenner wrote: > > I've so far found this: > > http://logging.apache.org/log4j/companions/extras/apidocs/org/apache/log4j/r > olling/package-tree.html > > Despite the fact that it is there in "extras", you're suggesting that it was > abandoned? Why? >
The log4j 1.3 development branch was abandoned since it was became hopelessly binary incompatible with log4j 1.2. We could have renumbered it as log4j 2.0, but we wanted to save 2.0 for a log4j that addressed concurrency issues and not have a 2.0 and then a 3.0 in relatively short order. Selected parts of log4j 1.3 such as the o.a.l.rolling.RollingFileAppender were backported to be compatible with log4j 1.2. The "extras" companion was the original home but more of them have been migrating from extras into log4j itself. So o.a.l.rolling.RollingFIleAppender is not abandoned, but its original home, the log4j 1.3 development branch is abandoned.
