Re: bug? strange resolution of commons-logging dependency

[Rusty Wright <ru...@gmail.com>]

This may be a dumb or inappropriate question, but why does Tomcat need commons logging?  Why can't it just use java util logging?


Jörg Schaible wrote:
> Hi Ceki,
> 
> Ceki Gulcu wrote at Dienstag, 30. Juni 2009 16:45:
> 
>>
>> Jörg Schaible wrote:
>>
>>> You've been right, I should have read your question closer. See Dennis'
>>> answer. Actually there was an attempt to release an official empty
>>> commons-logging at Apache recently and it was tunred down exactly because
>>> we could foresee this problem you're facing now :-/
>> Note that we wanted to release version 0.0-EMPTY, not version 99. One
>> could argue that releasing 0.0-EMPTY could have prevented this issue
>> from occurring.
> 
> Since the algorithm takes the distance into account, it could have been
> happened also:
> 
> A depends on B, C
> B depends on D
> C depends on CL-0.0-EMPTY
> D depends on CL-1.1.1
> 
> C' dep to CL-0.0-EMPTY is nearer -> compilation fails.
> 
> As said, it's a good solution for an end application, but not for libraries
> used by others ;-)
> 
> - Jörg
> 
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Re: bug? strange resolution of commons-logging dependency

[Jörg Schaible <jo...@gmx.de>]

Rusty Wright wrote at Mittwoch, 1. Juli 2009 00:15:

> This may be a dumb or inappropriate question, but why does Tomcat need
> commons logging?  Why can't it just use java util logging?

Who did mention Tomcat in this thread? And no, recent versions of Tomcat use
their own logging framework JULI which is based on JUL.

- Jörg


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