Status of Chainsaw

[Ralph Goers <ra...@dslextreme.com>]

Log4j 1 is now at end of life. As I understand it Chainsaw is still targeted at Log4j 1.  The download page says the last build date was in 2006.  The OS X .dmg file doesn’t work as it is for the PowerPC, which Apple hasn’t supported in quite a while.

I do see commits in pom.xml that suggest work was in progress to support Log4j 2 but that was in February 2013 - 3 years ago.

What is the status of the project?

Ralph




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Re: Status of Chainsaw

[Ralph Goers <ra...@dslextreme.com>]

From the web site it looks like a long dead project.  I am not sure it is appropriate to keep it around if you aren't ever going to have releases. I just think there should be 1 a year at a minimum.

Ralph

> On Feb 8, 2016, at 12:43 AM, Scott Deboy <sc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I continue to tweak it occasionally, not much lately. Not updating release because I never got around to branding.
> 
> The dmg is for x86 but I've been updating snapshots on people.
> 
> It has a lot of good features now but has warts (timestamp parsing slowness mostly).
> 
> I will continue to tweak it but I won't be porting it to log4j 2.  The fact that it uses log4j 1 internally is an implementation detail in my mind, one I would rather have changed out but never did.
> 
> Chainsaw doesn't need log4j 2 serial format compatibility go be useful. Its primary use in my view is reading arbitrary text log files which it does pretty well.
> 
> Scott
> 
>> On Feb 7, 2016 10:31 PM, "Ralph Goers" <ra...@dslextreme.com> wrote:
>> Log4j 1 is now at end of life. As I understand it Chainsaw is still targeted at Log4j 1.  The download page says the last build date was in 2006.  The OS X .dmg file doesn’t work as it is for the PowerPC, which Apple hasn’t supported in quite a while.
>> 
>> I do see commits in pom.xml that suggest work was in progress to support Log4j 2 but that was in February 2013 - 3 years ago.
>> 
>> What is the status of the project?
>> 
>> Ralph
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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Re: Status of Chainsaw

[Scott Deboy <sc...@gmail.com>]

I continue to tweak it occasionally, not much lately. Not updating release
because I never got around to branding.

The dmg is for x86 but I've been updating snapshots on people.

It has a lot of good features now but has warts (timestamp parsing slowness
mostly).

I will continue to tweak it but I won't be porting it to log4j 2.  The fact
that it uses log4j 1 internally is an implementation detail in my mind, one
I would rather have changed out but never did.

Chainsaw doesn't need log4j 2 serial format compatibility go be useful. Its
primary use in my view is reading arbitrary text log files which it does
pretty well.

Scott
On Feb 7, 2016 10:31 PM, "Ralph Goers" <ra...@dslextreme.com> wrote:

> Log4j 1 is now at end of life. As I understand it Chainsaw is still
> targeted at Log4j 1.  The download page says the last build date was in
> 2006.  The OS X .dmg file doesn’t work as it is for the PowerPC, which
> Apple hasn’t supported in quite a while.
>
> I do see commits in pom.xml that suggest work was in progress to support
> Log4j 2 but that was in February 2013 - 3 years ago.
>
> What is the status of the project?
>
> Ralph
>
>
>
>
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