On 01/12/2013 05:37 PM, Christian Grobmeier wrote: > On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Thomas Neidhart > <thomas.neidh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I would like to do a similar cleanup as for email also for logging and >> aim for a 1.2 release in the coming weeks. The things I have in mind: >> >> * update to Java 5 >> * comply to default maven structure >> * update to Junit 4 >> * fix the open issues wrt thread safety >> * replace WeakHashtable with a WeakHashMap or a ConcurrentHashMap (see >> LOGGING-119) >> >> What do you think? > > from technical point of view +1. > But do you really think its worth fixing [logging]? > As I see it its just for use of legacy applications. Or are you > looking to implement commons-logging 2.0 which supports f.e. logback > or log4j2? > > If you go with java5 it probably does not have use for legacy apps and > with the lack of modern logging framework support it does not have use > for modern apps.
Well, the main idea is to maintain an old library with useful bugfixes. My thought was that *nobody* uses Java < 5 anymore, but this assumption may be wrong. In general I am fine with keeping the current java compatibility settings. Thomas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
