[logback-dev] [JIRA] (LOGBACK-718) Support Eclipse buddy policy for loading logback.xml

[Libor Jelinek]

Dammit! A typo - it SHOULD NOT BE deprecated.

Ceki, please re-post it also.

Thanks a good night to Switzerland!
Libor

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Libor Jelinek <ljelinek at virtage.com>wrote:

> Hello guys,
> I asked at equinox-dev and it seems there's no Bundle-BuddyPolicy header
> in OSGi standard
> (my question listed in [1] and).
>
> Moreover there's nothing wrong with Eclipse-BuddyPolicy (except it's
> Eclipse-specific). It should be deprecated - at least as far as I know.
>
> Whether it's good idea to include this Equinox specific header is
> different question. My personal state is to include it because
> * other OSGi frameworks will ignore this header
> * for Equinox OSGi it doesn't mean any significant load
> * users wishing to go "buddy classloading policy" way will not have to
> edit manually unpack JAR, modify MANIFEST.MF headers and pack it as JAR
> again.
>
> [1] http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/equinox-dev/msg07228.html
>
> --
> Have a nice day!
>  Libor Jelinek
> http://devblog.virtage.com/libor-jelinek/
>
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 2:10 PM, ceki <ceki at qos.ch> wrote:
>
>> Hi Gunnar, Ekke,
>>
>> FYI, since a few days, we started publishing a composite p2 repository
>> at http://logback.qos.ch/p2/. It contains two child repositories,
>> called "proper" and "beagle". The "beagle" repo publishes the
>> logback-beagle plugin which is a console-like view for logging. The
>> "proper" repository publishes bundles for slf4j-api, logback-core and
>> logback-classic.
>>
>> OSGi bundles still need a way to pass logback-classic a configuration
>> file. Several technical for achieving this are explained by Libor
>> Jelinek at [1]. I think logback-classic should support Eclipse buddy
>> policy. Would you have any objections if I added
>> "Eclipse-BuddyPolicy: registered" to logback-classic.jar's MANIFEST ?
>>
>> Your comments are most welcome,
>>
>> [1] http://devblog.virtage.com/**2012/07/logback-and-eclipse-**
>> attaching-logback-xml/<http://devblog.virtage.com/2012/07/logback-and-eclipse-attaching-logback-xml/>
>>
>> --
>> Ceki
>> http://twitter.com/#!/ceki
>>
>>
>>
>
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