[slf4j-dev] [Bug 196] incompatible with ReportNG

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http://bugzilla.slf4j.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196





--- Comment #2 from Richard Taylor <ryo.away at gmail.com>  2010-08-13 20:01:45 ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> If ReportNG has that strong a dependency on Log4J that it's trying to set the
> additivity of a category then I would say it's a hard dependency and not
> suitable for piping to SLF4J.
> 
> Think of it as a library in a webapp that casts HttpServletRequest to a Tomcat
> specific implementation. If your webapp depends on that library then you're
> stuck with Tomcat. 
> 
> Log4j over slf4j is only meant to work with libraries that use the simplest
> methods on log4j - ie Logger.getLogger and then the trace/debug/info/warn/error
> methods. It isn't meant to support the whole log4j api. 
> 

I see your point. The purpose of this bug is to request expansion of the
implementation. If that's not feasible or outside of the scope of the project,
I'll resort to filing a bug with ReportNG to change their dependency. Let me
know so I can proceed to the next action.


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