Early review of std.logger

[ilya-stromberg]

On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 13:54:12 UTC, 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.

I did not talk about additional external libraries. As I know, 
Vibe.d use OpenSSL to provide SSL streams. Since we haven't got 
encryption support in Phobos, we can provide only TCP streams.