[slf4j-dev] Release of SLF4J version 1.6.0-RC0

[Ralph Goers]

On Apr 30, 2010, at 7:04 AM, Ceki Gülcü wrote:

> On 30/04/2010 3:24 PM, Ralph Goers wrote:
>> Generally when I don't reply it isn't because I love the idea.
> 
> I gathered as much.
> 
> > I can't think of any use cases where I'd want to construct a logging
> > event that way. It also would seem that you would be taking what is
> > currently a structure private to Logback and making it public as it
> > would make no sense for SLF4J to have one LoggingEvent and Logback to
> > have another.
> 
> Building a LoggingEvent prior to calling org.slf4j.Logger avoids
> adding new methods to the Logger interface in order to keep it sane.
> 
> > In short, it doesn't really solve what Joern and I have been looking
> > for with support for the Message and doesn't provide much value that I
> > can see.
> 
> Given that it solves the method population explosion problem,
> LoggingEvent can be considered as a prerequisite to to the addition of
> the Message interface.
> 

So instead of adding new methods to Logger you will add them to LoggingEvent. That helps how?

Ralph