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Author: snakefoot

_posts/2024-10-01-nlog-6-0-goals.md

@@ -9,19 +9,19 @@ NLog v6.0 has the following goals:
 - Support Nullable references
 - Remove old target platforms `NetStandard1.3` + `NetStandard1.5`
 - Cleanup interfaces for `Logger` / `ILogger` to remove unnecessary boxing optimizations from .NET v1
-- Remove Systeml.RegularExpression dependency since a heavy dependency for AOT
-  - Need to implement a minimal syntax-support for NLog Logging Rules. Ex. `?` and `.*`
-- Remove Systeml.Xml dependency since a heavy dependency for AOT
+- Remove `System.Text.RegularExpressions` dependency since a heavy dependency for AOT
+  - Need to implement a minimal syntax-support for NLog Logging Rules. Ex. `?` and `*`
+- Remove `System.Xml` dependency since a heavy dependency for AOT
   - Need to implement a minimal XML reader to continue loading `NLog.config` XML files
 - Extract NLog.Targets.WebServiceTarget to its own nuget-package
 - Extract NLog.Targets.NetworkTarget to its own nuget-package
 - Extract NLog.Targets.MailTarget to its own nuget-package
 - Extract NLog.Targets.FileTarget to its own nuget-package NLog.Targets.ConcurrentFileTarget
   - NLog will instead have a simple FileTarget without ConcurrentWrites-support but only KeepFileOpen = false
 
-The overall goal for NLog v6.0 is still to be a fully working logging-library in a single nuget-package.
+The overall goal for NLog v6.0 to continue being a fully working logging-library in a single nuget-package.
 The NLog-package will out of the box only handle file- and console-output, which will probably cover 90 pct.
-of the use cases. When needing other output destinations or formats, then additional nuget-packages must be included.
+of the use cases. When needing other output targets or formats, then additional nuget-packages must be included.
 
 The planned interface cleanup for `Logger` / `ILogger` will probably give a lot of headache,
 as it will require all dependencies to be upgraded before upgrading the main-application.
@@ -37,4 +37,5 @@ will fully support AOT, to allow more ASP.NET or MAUI applications to start usin
 NLog should not become a blocker, when wanting to try out AOT builds.
 
 This means NLog v5 will now go into maintenance mode (together with NLog v4), and focus
-will now be on getting NLog v6 preview build ready.
+will now be on getting NLog v6 preview build ready. If having suggestions for the future direction
+of the [NLog v6 milestone](https://github.com/NLog/NLog/milestone/29) then [comments are wellcome](https://github.com/NLog/NLog/issues/4931).