[slf4j-dev] recent work on log4j

[Ceki Gulcu]

Hello Thorbjørn,

Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen wrote:

> My Windows box needed to be reinstalled and it takes longer than 
> expected to be fully back in business.  This includes my logback/slf4j 
> subscriptions. 


A crashing laptop? Sounds like fun. :-)


> I'd like to know which development environment you use, and how you get 
> up and running from scratch?

After checking out SLF4J
svn checkout http://svn.slf4j.org/repos/slf4j/trunk target_directory

you just need to run "mvn package" to build SLF4J. I use Maven 2.0.8.

For logback, the procedure is similar:

svn checkout http://svn.qos.ch/repos/logback/trunk/ target_directory

As an IDE I use Eclipse (Europa) on a Windows XP machine with cygwin.

So strictly speaking, Maven, plus an IDE of your choice, is all you need to work 
on both projects.

As you already know, previously you needed to download Sun's JMS API 
specification manually. However, thanks to you [1], we now use Geronimo's JMS 
which can be downloaded automatically by Maven.

We also run continuum 1.1 on a Linux box to make sure that both projects always 
compile and pass all tests (on a different architecture).

> Have anybody made any comments on my initial code posting yet?

Well, not yet. I am sure people with chime in (eventually). As for me, I was 
very busy with fairly intricate piece of code, that is LBGENERAL-23. Just 
finished. See http://jira.qos.ch/browse/LBGENERAL-23
for details. Have you sent in your CLA? I'd like to get the paperwork done 
before creating an SVN account for you on svn.slf4j.org.

[1] http://jira.qos.ch/browse/LBGENERAL-24

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Ceki Gülcü
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