AW: Ideas for a new RollingFileAppender

2013-08-26 Thread Dominik Psenner
I agree. The user has to be aware of that special file but I wouldn't make it "switchable" because it implicitly limits the available configurations in other places and the user probably does not know. We have a similar magic toggle in the current RFA which is named "staticLogFileName". That toggle

AW: Ideas for a new RollingFileAppender

2013-08-23 Thread Dominik Psenner
Good Morning, I understand your point. That would be exactly how the current RFA behaves. However, people are lazy and when something doesn't work they are first frustrated and then they may throw the framework over board or ask silly questions. The latter happens about once every month. It is

AW: Ideas for a new RollingFileAppender

2013-08-13 Thread Dominik Psenner
> Another issue that I just remembered now is that currently there's no way to > roll empty files on date/time boundaries. Rolling only happens when a log > event is generated. If there's no log event, files won't be rolled. Thus we > should investigate if we should implement the appender as a buf

AW: Ideas for a new RollingFileAppender

2013-08-13 Thread Dominik Psenner
See the inlines.. I've stripped whatever's no longer interesting. >> Another issue that I just remembered now is that currently there's no >> way to roll empty files on date/time boundaries. Rolling only happens >> when a log event is generated. If there's no log event, files won't be >> rolled. T

AW: Ideas for a new RollingFileAppender

2013-08-12 Thread Dominik Psenner
[good idea :-D] >-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- >Von: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:bode...@apache.org] >Gesendet: Montag, 12. August 2013 10:07 >An: Log4NET Dev >Betreff: Ideas for a new RollingFileAppender > >[just changing the subject :-)] > >On 2013-08-12, Dominik Psenner wrote: > >> Yesterday it