Early review of std.logger

[Robert Schadek]

On 10/15/2013 03:54 PM, Dicebot wrote:
> On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 13:31:40 UTC, ilya-stromberg wrote:
>> ...
>
> I think such stuff should go as an extra module in same package with
> various useful out-of-the box logger implementations at the very best.
> Probably even dub package built on top of std.logger;
>
> Phobos has very specific general design I like a lot - self-contained
> modules/packages with zero external dependencies (please kill
> std.net.curl!), which do work by simply importing certain modules. No
> extra configuration, no creation of weird useless classes - just
> reasonable defaults that work as-is in most cases.
>
> In that sense what is 100% needed is enhancing current API so that it
> may allow more fine grained tweaking of loggers (addition of module
> info, providing built-in multiplexing logger). There should be no
> temptation to build own stuff with own API because you can't write own
> logger that fits standard one.
>
> But actual batteries - no, this does belong to Phobos.
+1