Implementing std.log

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 04/24/2011 02:23 PM, Sean Cavanaugh wrote:
> On 4/20/2011 11:09 AM, Robert Clipsham wrote:
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> I've just finished porting my web framework from D1/Tango to D2/Phobos,
>> and in the transition lost logging functionality. As I'll be writing a
>> logging library anyway, I wondered if there'd be interest in a std.log?
>> If so, is there a current logging library we would like it to be based
>> on, or should we design from scratch?
>>
>> I know there has been discussion about Google's
>> http://google-glog.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/glog.html and another
>> candidate may be http://logging.apache.org/log4j/ . Do we want a
>> comprehensive logging library, or just the basics? (Possibly with some
>> method for extension if needed).
>>
>
>
> I just wanted to mention Pantheios as a C++ logging system to take look
> at as well, I didn't see it mentioned in this thread and it seems to
> have all the major requirements for frontend/backend chaining and
> whatnot that people have brought up. The code is on sourceforge to boot.

I think Pantheios is an example of library design gone bad. It is 
fascinatingly overengineered.

Andrei