Re: [human-assisted gump] log4j back incompatible change

2004-10-29 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Craig McClanahan wrote: I can help out with over half of the gump failures. Commons Logging deprecated Log4JCategoryLog a long time ago, when Log4J deprecated Category in favor of Logger. C-L itself hasn't used Log4JCategoryLog for several releases, so this change will be transparent to the vast m

Re: [human-assisted gump] log4j back incompatible change

2004-10-29 Thread Ceki Gülcü
Hi Craig, Apparently, since you removed the Log4JCategoryLog class, commons-logging builds fine today. Do you have a copy of yesterday's errors for commons-logging? If you do, could I please have a look at them? Thanks in advance, At 07:40 AM 10/29/2004, Craig McClanahan wrote: I can help out wi

Re: [human-assisted gump] log4j back incompatible change

2004-10-29 Thread Ceki Gülcü
Hello Stefano, We have been trying to shed the Category class for over 3 years. It has been and still is an excruciatingly difficult and long process. As long as source code does not directly refer to the Category class but uses Logger instead, it should be compatible with both existing log4j versi

Re: [human-assisted gump] log4j back incompatible change

2004-10-29 Thread Curt Arnold
Same disclaimer: From http://logging.apache.org/log4j/docs/api/org/apache/log4j/Category.html This class has been deprecated and replaced by the Logger subclass. It will be kept around to preserve backward compatibility until mid 2003. Logger is a subclass of Category, i.e. it extends Category

Re: [human-assisted gump] log4j back incompatible change

2004-10-29 Thread Craig McClanahan
I can help out with over half of the gump failures. Commons Logging deprecated Log4JCategoryLog a long time ago, when Log4J deprecated Category in favor of Logger. C-L itself hasn't used Log4JCategoryLog for several releases, so this change will be transparent to the vast majority of Commons Logg

Re: [human-assisted gump] log4j back incompatible change

2004-10-29 Thread Curt Arnold
I took a quick look at the break and in no way can speak for log4j or Ceki, but thought I would give a quick analysis to show how little I know of the problem. On Oct 29, 2004, at 12:07 AM, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: 1) if you might be willing to revert the change if you did not intend to cause

[human-assisted gump] log4j back incompatible change

2004-10-29 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Ceki, your action http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/logging-log4j/src/java/org/apache/log4j/Category.java?r1=1.88&r2=1.89&diff_format=h caused a compilation failure of the following projects: - commons-logging - velocity - ant and, as a result, caused a drop in the gump's success from 83% to