Shibboleth Developers

["Michael R. Gettes" <>]

Ah, thanks for the clarity.  I understand now.

/mrg

On Jul 18, 2007, at 15:48, Scott Cantor wrote:

> > My interpretation of the following statement is that there would be a
> > new dist of shib 1.3 with the new log4cpp - yes?
>
> The new dist of 1.3 isn't strictly because of that, there are many,  
> many
> reasons I'm planning that.
>
> > If so, why?  Why not just freeze 1.3?
>
> 2.0 will take time to stablize, I have many, many sites in  
> production here
> using it that will require long term maintenance of the branch, and  
> for
> various build-related reasons, I need a single library set for both  
> branches
> and 1.3's lib set is very out of date. There are also numerous  
> fixes needed,
> 64-bit support, etc.
>
> The logging thing is really incidental to all that.
>
> > The rest of what you describe seems reasonable
> > to me.  A shame that log4cpp has been abandoned.
>
> It's not strictly abandoned, I just don't trust the minimal life  
> support
> it's on. If thread safety is viewed as some kind of "optional"  
> bonus that
> wouldn't have been fixed years ago, I don't care to hitch my horse  
> to that
> wagon.
>
> -- Scott