Hello dear logback commiters,
 
I'm trying to use MDC in my multithread program and i'm having the following error:

SLF4J: Failed to load class "org.slf4j.impl.StaticMDCBinder".
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#no_static_mdc_binder for further details.
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/slf4j/impl/StaticMDCBinder
at org.slf4j.MDC.<clinit>(
MDC.java:70)
at fr.mipih.jms.AsynchConsumer.<init>(
AsynchConsumer.java:50)
at fr.mipih.jms.AsynchConsumer.main(
AsynchConsumer.java:182)

I have the following jars in the classpath :

slf4j-api-1.4.2.jar
jcl104-over-slf4j-1.4.2.jar
logback-classic-0.9.7.jar
logback-core-0.9.7.jar

I have check the content of the jars and in fact StaticMDCBinder is nowhere to be found (should be in logback-classic-0.9.7.jar as I understand it)

I have checked the repository at http://svn.qos.ch/repos/logback/trunk and found that StaticMDCBinder was added in logback-classic\src\main\java\org\slf4j\impl

I have no [easy] way to compile the new source code on my platform since logback use maven (don't have it, don't want to install it, don't want to learn how to use it).

Isn't it time to release a 0.9.8 or something (why not a 1.0) so that MDC (and other bug fixes) are available to the majority ?

TIA.

ZC.