[slf4j-dev] slf4j artifact groupings

[Chad La Joie]

Bug# 162.  Sorry it took me a couple days to get that in there.

Ceki Gulcu wrote:
> 
> Hello Chad,
> 
> 
> The package "completeness" requirement is evoked from time to time by
> users. It is quite understandable.
> 
> If I understand correctly, you would like to change the grouping id so
> that your maven assembly file does not have to deal with the various
> slf4j-related individually but by groups?
> 
> It's a good idea actually, but such grouping changes would have an
> impact on all downstream projects (using maven) and by transitivity on
> their users. It's would be quite big move.
> 
> Please enter a bug report asking for this change which *may* be
> applied in a future release of slf4j with other breaking changes, when
> and *if* such breaking changes occur.
> 
> Chad La Joie wrote:
>> I use slf4j in a number of projects, some of which are libraries.  For 
>> the libraries I like to include all the bridge (e.g. slfj4j-log4j13) 
>> and adapter (e.g. jcl-over-slf4j) jars with the library distribution 
>> so that people downloading the library don't have to then go and grab 
>> the slf4j distribution as well.
>>
>> However, from a maven perspective, doing this kind of a pain because 
>> there is no way to distinguish between the core slf4j artifacts, the 
>> bridge artifacts, and the adapter artifacts.  So I would like to 
>> recommend change the group ID for the bridge and adapter artifacts to 
>> signify which they are.  For example, using the group IDs 
>> org.slf4j.adapter and org.slf4j.bridge.
>>
>> With this I could create assemblies as followed:
>> <dependencySet>
>>     <outputDirectory>/lib/slf4j-adpater</outputDirectory>
>>     <includes>
>>         <include>org.slf4j.adapter:*</include>
>>      </includes>
>> </dependencySet>
>>
>> Does this seem reasonable?
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