Review of Jose Armando Garcia Sancio's std.log

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Mon Feb 13 23:44:40 PST 2012


On 2012-02-13 22:17, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
> Log levels "debug" and maybe also "trace" would be useful, but I see
> that vlog(n)() is meant for that purpose. I would just prefer explicit
> names instead of just numbers.
>
> Is there a compelling reason why formatted logging is not the default? I
> find that most logging calls in practice use formatted output, and the
> only overhead would be searching once through the format string in the
> case of format placeholders.
>
> A predefined logger for OutputDebugString on Windows would be useful -
> or maybe it could be used instead of stdout at least for non-console
> applications.
>
> One kind of log writer that I have in my code is one that outputs a
> nicely formatted HTML file with built-in JavaScript to be able to filter
> messages by priority or module. Maybe this is too much for a standard
> library implementation though.

It would be nice to be able to plug in different formatters.

> Support for multiple log writers can be useful (e.g. logging to a file +
> logging to stdout or to a log control inside of the running
> application). Of course, one can also simply write a
> "MultiDispatchLogger"...
>
> A format option to log the thread name instead of just the ID.


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/Jacob Carlborg


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