Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Can SLF4J be made the official logging AP

[Ed Willink <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

I've started to action this for OCL; 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=559532

and hit a silly problem; who redistributes SLF4J?

If it's standard, surely the platform should redistribute so that a copy 
can be found in e.g. eclipse-SDK-4.14-win32-x86_64.zip ?

There is no SLF4J there. There is no log4j either. Where does log4j come 
form? It turns out that EGit redistributes both log4j and SLF4J. Very 
helpful, but surely not right?

What is the preferred policy for redistribution of SLF4J? Does every 
project need to redistribute it itself to avoid piggy-backing on EGit or 
mandating that users manually add Orbit to their Install sites?

Regards

Ed Willink