Happy Thanksgiving

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

This Thursday is the Thanksgiving holiday in the USA.  I will not be  
checking emails or doing any coding until next week and I expect that  
other US based developers will also be spending time with families  
and friends and not hanging out on the mailing or bug lists.

I've just committed a slew of new code related to SocketAppender and  
SocketHubAppender.  Those appenders have been disabled for several  
years and before that were platform specific and could not  
interoperate with Chainsaw.  The intent of the fixes is to move those  
appenders to using the existing log4j event serialization format to  
enable connecting log4cxx to Chainsaw.  I've tested the serialized  
form of the logging events with log4j which was able to consume them,  
but my very quick test with Chainsaw resulted in a connection  
failure.  I'll resume testing that when I get back.

The SocketAppender changes also resulted in changes to  
XMLSocketAppender and TelnetAppender which were previously  
functional.  I did a quick sanity check of TelnetAppender and was  
able to connect.  I have not tested XMLSocketAppender since the changes.

With the LOGCXX-7 out of the way, that only leaves LOGCXX-1 as the  
big long standing bug that needs to be addressed.