Bug 37864

Summary: Add target to generate binary and source compatibility report
Product: Log4j - Now in Jira Reporter: Curt Arnold <carnold>
Component: OtherAssignee: log4j-dev <log4j-dev>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P2    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Other   
OS: other   

Description Curt Arnold 2005-12-11 05:38:11 UTC 
CLIRR (http://clirr.sourceforge.net) generates compatibility reports by
comparing two JAR files.  This enhancement adds a "clirr" target which generates
docs/compatibility.html which identifies compatibility errors on the current
HEAD against a specified reference jar.

The current SVN HEAD will cause a NullPointerException in CLIRR with clirr 0.6
which has been reported as
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1377978&group_id=89627&atid=590799
which contains a workaround if you are interested enough to patch CLIRR.

A sample of the generated document is currently available at
http://people.apache.org/~carnold/compatibility.html.
Comment 1 Curt Arnold 2005-12-20 03:02:07 UTC 
Committed on 10 Dec 2005, rev 355902.
Comment 2 Curt Arnold 2007-02-26 15:15:04 UTC 
Committed against 1.2 branch in rev 512067.