I would prefer going from JDK5 to 7 immediately as well, old JDK means usage of old tools.
Regards Mirko -- Sent from my mobile On Jul 16, 2013 7:07 AM, "Stephen Connolly" <[email protected]> wrote: > So what I am hearing is that until we bump core to require JDK6 (or 7) then > logback is the only runner from a technical point of view (never mind that > log4j2 is still not GA) > > OTOH I would be interested in bumping JDK all the way to 7 if we were happy > that toolchains is good enough and we had tests in play that use toolchains > > On Tuesday, 16 July 2013, Arnaud Héritier wrote: > > > Hi > > > > FYI I rebased both branches on current master : > > * > > > > > https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=maven.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/slf4j-log4j2 > > * > > > > > https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=maven.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/slf4j-logback > > With all work done by Herve both branches have only one interesting > commit > > to update few deps. > > > > If you want to test them I shared some archives : > > * > > > > > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/501043/apache-maven-3.2-SNAPSHOT-log4j2-bin.tar.gz > > * > > > > > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/501043/apache-maven-3.2-SNAPSHOT-log4j2-bin.zip > > * > > > > > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/501043/apache-maven-3.2-SNAPSHOT-logback-bin.tar.gz > > * > > > > > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/501043/apache-maven-3.2-SNAPSHOT-logback-bin.zip > > (You just have to replace the non-color config file in conf/logging by > the > > -color one) > > > > LOG4J2 has 2 issues : > > ** It requires Java 6 (while our core is always requiring Java 5 for > now) > > ** beta 7 and beta 8 aren't supporting some methods we used in our > > integration : > > [WARNING] setRootLoggerLevel: operation not supported > > [WARNING] reset(): operation not supported > > > > Cheers > > > > ----- > > Arnaud Héritier > > http://aheritier.net > > Mail/GTalk: aheritier AT gmail DOT com > > Twitter/Skype : aheritier > > > > > -- > Sent from my phone >
