Why was LoggingRepository.setThreshold(Level) deprecated?

[Curt Arnold <ca...@apache.org>]

When I was cleaning up the Appender interface reversion, I 
intentionally added deprecation warnings and then attacked them.  While 
I was at it, I was surprised to discover that 
LoggerRepository.setThreshold(Level) had been deprecated.  The 
deprecation occurred in the first UGLI commit last June (rev 1.18 of 
LoggerRepository.java, 2004-06-07).  I didn't see any discussion 
immediately prior in the log4j-dev archives and searching the mailing 
list archives and Bugzilla yielded no clues.

LoggerRepository.setThreshold(String) was not deprecated, but it seems 
unlikely to want to push people to a less strongly typed alternative.

I have found LoggerRepository.setThreshold(Level) useful, its behavior 
is well document and I don't know of an alternative that performs the 
same function.  I'd like to see it come back,  unless someone wants to 
enlighten me why it should go away.


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