[slf4j-user] [POLL] Requiring JDK 1.5 for SLF4J

[Ryan McKinley]

+1


On Mar 26, 2009, at 1:16 PM, Ceki Gulcu wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> SLF4J users have been asking for varags support for a long time. See
> http://bugzilla.slf4j.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31 for more details. The
> plan is to add varags support in SLF4J version 1.6 to be released  
> later
> this year, possibly in October 2009.
>
> The idea is extremely simple. We would replace methods such as:
>
>  // in current API
>  public void debug(String msgFormat, Object[] argArray);
>
> with:
>
>  // proposed API for SLF4J 1.6.0
>  public void debug(String msgFormat, Object... arg);
>
> Interestingly enough, the proposed change is perfectly compatible with
> existing code. In particular, code compiled against SLF4J 1.5.6 or
> earlier will run fine against SLF4J 1.6.0 and vice versa, that is
> client code compiled with SLF4J 1.6.0 will run fine with SLF4J 1.5.6
> and earlier.
>
> The only problem is that the varargs notation requires JDK 1.5. Thus,
> we are faced with the question of requiring JDK 1.5 instead of JDK
> 1.3 in SLF4J.
>
> Do you accept SLF4J dropping JDK 1.3 compatibility and require JDK 1.5
> instead?  If you respond, please do so on the user at slf4j mailing list.
>
> This poll is open for 3 months starting from today, March the 26th of
> 2009.
>
> Many thanks in advance for your feedback.
>
> -- 
> Ceki Gülcü
> Logback: The reliable, generic, fast and flexible logging framework  
> for Java.
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