Re: [log4perl-devel] Yet another log4perl...

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In a message dated 8/8/02 1:18:29 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
sl...@ge... writes:

> We noticed it (log4j) about a year or two ago, and ourselves
> embarked on a project to create a perlified version of it.

Wow, I wish we had made contact earlier! Actually, Kevin and I stumbled into 
each other when he announced his plans a while ago. Later I had a small code 
base and we started furiously extending it.

> So I'm wondering what is the state if log4perl.  I noticed
> everywhere you had the word "ALPHA"...is it fully working?

Depends on your definition of "fully" :). It comes with a pretty detailed 
tutorial and I'm currently putting the final strokes on an article (also 
tutorial-style) which I plan on publishing real soon. All the features 
described in there are working and stable. If there's issues with anything we 
know about, it's listed in the "Changes" file. 
All in all, I think we've got a pretty nice implementation, we've been just a 
bit conservative by labelling it "ALPHA" to make clear it's not widely 
deployed and tested yet. Both Kevin and I are currently integrating it into 
bigger projects, I think we're gonna re-label it as soon as we're confident 
that there's no more hickups.
The regression test suite has about 120 test cases now, covering a lot of 
detail, so I would consider it pretty stable.

> I am
> also wondering if there is any way we might be able to
> contribute?  We do have a working version that is based on
> the older Category API vs the newer "Logger" API (which
> 

We're definitely interested in your help. Is your implementation publically 
available from somewhere? I'd definitely be interested to take a look. Maybe 
you could do the same with ours (perldoc Log::Log4perl) and let us know what 
you think (use the version from CVS to get the latest scoop).

-- Mike

Mike Schilli
log...@pe...
http://perlmeister.com
http://log4perl.sourceforge.net