logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler: implement "preserve log file name extension" feature

[desmondgc]

BPO	9726
Nosy	@vsajip

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title = 'logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler: implement "preserve log file name extension" feature'
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[desmondgc]

See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4NET-64 - "[PATCH] to RollingFileAppender.cs to add the ability to preserve the log file name extension when rolling the log file."

Currently, rollover appends a numeric extension to the base file name. E.g.:

app.log
app.log.1
app.log.2

Consider adding an option to preserve the log file name extension. E.g.:

app.log
app.1.log
app.2.log

This maintains file associations in Windows, most notably.

[vsajip]

Only bug-fixes are supposed to go into 2.7, so reclassifying.

[vsajip]

You can do this by subclassing RotatingFileHandler and overriding doRollover, as per this example:

http://plumberjack.blogspot.com/2010/09/using-custom-file-naming-scheme-for.html