[Building Sakai] Too many copies of log4j.jar ??

[Charles Severance]

On Sep 10, 2012, at 12:14 PM, Seth Theriault wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Charles Severance <csev at umich.edu> wrote:
>> I am playing with the 2-9-x branch and there are too many log4j jar files:
>> 
>> ./common/lib/log4j-1.2.16.jar
>> ./components/profile2-pack/WEB-INF/lib/log4j-1.2.14.jar
>> ./webapps/accountvalidator/WEB-INF/lib/log4j-1.2.14.jar
>> ./webapps/mailsender-tool/WEB-INF/lib/log4j-1.2.14.jar
>> ./webapps/profile2-tool/WEB-INF/lib/log4j-1.2.14.jar
>> ./webapps/sakai-gradebook-tool/WEB-INF/lib/log4j-1.2.14.jar
>> ./webapps/sakai-reset-pass/WEB-INF/lib/log4j-1.2.14.jar
>> ./webapps/sakai-site-manage-group-section-role-helper/WEB-INF/lib/log4j-1.2.14.jar
> 
> Many of these tools have "indie" status or are separately maintained.
> It is very possible that are not up to date (this is a somewhat
> frequent occurrence).

But these tools should just assume that log4j is in shared and make the tiny change to their pom.

Or is there a valid reason to put the jar in warts here and there.

Seems like a little nice thing to clean up.

/Chuck