[slf4j-dev] New Class

[Ceki Gulcu]

Hello Ralph,

Ralph Goers wrote:
> I added a new class to slf4j-ext. Should I create a bug to track it? I 
> don't see the "normal" maven changes.xml either so I guess that isn't 
> part of the process?

You can just document its addition in news.html.

> On a related note, the class I added has a dependency on commons-lang. I 
> made it optional so that users of XLogger wouldn't be required to bring 
> it in. 

In this particular context making it an optional dependency seems to me like the 
right thing to do.

However,
> the Javaassist library isn't optional so it would be brought in under 
> the same circumstances. Should that be optional also? Or should I just 
> have let commons-lang
> be required?

I believe the javaassit library should also be optional. Thank you for bringing 
it  up.

Cheers,

> Ralph

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