[slf4j-user] Why 'simple' uses standard out?

[Ceki Gülcü]

Hi Alex,

It looks like we have 3 people voicing 3 different opinions. :-)

Hi Kostis,

Given that slf4j-simple.jar can easily be replaced by a another jar 
offering fully-fledged logging functionality, does the output destination 
of slf4j-simple.jar matter? In particular, I'd like to return to the two 
reasons you put forth.

 > 1. It doesn't collide with console apps that utilize the standard out
 > for processing.

OK. By collide you probably mean that it is possible to separate logging 
output from application output intended for user interaction. But don't 
both stderr and stdout end up on the console? It seems to me that sending 
logging output to stderr separation would avoid collisions, except if 
stderr was redirected to a file. Do you see where I am getting at?

 > 2. It is the default of JDK and the Unix way (i believe for the above 
reason) .

Indeed, ConsoleHandler outputs by to stderr. By Unix, what system do you 
have in mind? Syslog?

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