Using glog's design for Phobos?

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Hello Walter,

> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 
>> At my workplace we're using Google's logging library glog
>> (http://google-glog.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/glog.html), and the
>> more I use it, the more I like it. It's simple, to the point, and
>> effective.
>> 
>> I was thinking it would be great to adapt a similar design into
>> Phobos. There will be differences such as use of regular argument
>> lists instead of << etc., but the spirit will be similar. What do you
>> think?
>> 
> Ok, I'm going to get flamed for this, but,
> 
> I don't get it
> 
> I do logging all the time. It's usually customized to the particular
> problem I'm trying to solve, so it involves uncommenting the right
> printf's and then running it. Voila. Done.
> 
> The logging libraries I've seen usually required more time spent
> installing the package, getting it to compile,

include std.logging; // done

> reading the documentation,

If it's done well, one page of exampls will get 90% of the people going.

> finding out it doesn't work,

That would be a bug.

> 
> Even worse, the logging libraries are loaded with a grab bag of
> trivial features to try and puff it up into looking impressive.

That lib isn't and what we do dosn't need to be.

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