[slf4j-user] SLF4J on the Google Android Platform

[Ceki Gulcu]

Thorsten Möller wrote:
> On Thursday, October 22, 2009 5:53 PM [GMT+1=CET],
> Ceki Gulcu <ceki at qos.ch> wrote (with possible deletions):
> 
>> I think git supports Unix symbolic links but not all operating
>> systems support sym links which makes sym-link in git pointless. I am
>> not aware of a git equivalent for svn:externals.
>>
>> However, you could modify the build file for the slf4j-android*
> I gave it this name already :-)

Great minds think alike.

>> module so that it copies the source files it needs from the slf4j-api
>> module. This is pretty easy to do with an Ant target which you can
>> then add to the Maven build life cycle.  By the way, initial versions
>> of SLF4J where each binding also contained the contents of slf4j-api
>> used to work exactly this way.
> Would be a solution. Let me check that.
> 
> The initial version is now pushed to my fork:
> http://github.com/twwwt/slf4j/tree/master/slf4j-android/
> 
> Note that you need to install the Android SDK and set an environment 
> variable ANDROID_SDK_HOME in order to build it.

Why on earth isn't it possible to fetch android jar from the central Maven repo 
or any other repo? Isn't Android licensed under Apache?

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