What does this mean "incubating"? well i know what the word means but why are the file named as "incubating-log4net-1.2.10.zip" Apache? Is log4net still under development as the last release was 2006?
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It basically means that it isn't an official Apache project yet. Probably the project is abandoned as it has been in the incubator for so long and there are no new releases. Ask in apache mailing lists to get more information.
kgiannakakis
2009-05-26 09:06:49
While that might be technically true in terms of what it means in Apache parlance, log4net is about as far from dead as you can get. If it has, what's the magic replacement that has supplanted it? The fact that there isnt any code churn in this case is mainly due to the fact that it's been the de facto standard for about 5 years. Or am I missing something, are there any citations for this? (I personally tried to use System.Diagnostics logging at one stage, but even MS itself doesnt do that!)
Ruben Bartelink
2009-05-26 09:19:30
I didn't say it is dead. I've said it is abandoned, which is clearly the case as there is no new release since 2006. Today there are better alternatives available like http://www.nlog-project.org/ or the logging component in the Enterprise library.
kgiannakakis
2009-05-26 09:34:19
Sorry, didnt mean to be confrontational in that sense. I peeked at NLog and it seemed to be a hobby project reimplementation of Log4net that still had bugs (can someone please fill me in though please, maybe with a link to a question assering its superiority relative to log4net :D). The EL stuff is wildly overcomplex compared to log4net (or NLog), although in some cases of course the abstractions in there may be appropriate for a context.
Ruben Bartelink
2009-05-26 09:43:21
log4net is still in active development: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/logging/log4net/trunk/?sortby=date
Peter Lillevold
2009-05-26 10:38:26
I'm still all ears about real world usage of NLog relative to log4net...
Ruben Bartelink
2009-05-26 11:07:56
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log4net is in widespread production use in a huge variety of products, and not dead or beta by any means (and was a reimplementation of the popular log4j framework which has similar ubiquity in the Java world).
Most of the time, use of 'incubating' and 0.xx naming schemes is an oversight more than a 'here be dragons' / 'here be stuff not interesting enough to fight' indicator that one might infer.
In general, the incubating tag means that it's not being formally released as part of a beta/test/release cycle.
Ruben Bartelink
2009-05-26 09:07:58