[log4perl-devel] one appender, many categories

[Kevin G. <ke...@go...>]

I finally got a few minutes to think about log4perl today, and was
looking at my TODO list in the changes file:

 * Bug: If the *same* appender is being attached to several loggers,
   appender inheritance doesn't work as expected: Even if the 
   appender appears twice in the inheritance tree, it's only executed
once.
   But it actually needs to be run twice to match log4j.

For our behavior (attached perl) to match the log4j behavior (attached
java) on the (attached config), I would have to make the change
(attached diff).  

The only unit tests it messes with is 012Deeper.t, which is where it
would be expected.  So this would change the behavior of our libraries,
in that if you have an appender attached to plant and also to
plant.tree.leaf, a log message to plant.tree.leaf or below will fire the
appender twice, currently it only does it once (I believe that behavior
seemed more appropriate at the time).

Any comments before I make the change to bring us into conformity with
log4j?

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