Early review of std.logger

[ilya-stromberg]

On Sunday, 20 October 2013 at 16:05:47 UTC, ilya-stromberg wrote:
> On Sunday, 20 October 2013 at 15:34:50 UTC, Sean Kelly wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 16 October 2013 at 07:18:39 UTC, ilya-stromberg 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Disagree. We need a log rotation support.
>>> As I can see, available options could be:
>>>
>>> * rotating conditions
>>> - by date (rotate every hour, day (default), week, month, 
>>> year)
>>> - by file size (rotate if file size more than ... Mb)
>>> - by count log lines (rotate if log contains more than ... 
>>> log lines)
>>> - combination of previous conditions (for example, rotate 
>>> every day or rotate if file size more than 100 Mb)
>>>
>>> * file names after rotation
>>> - by numbers (my.log, my.log.0, my.log.1, ...)
>>> - by ISO date and time (my-2013-10-16-00-00-00.log)
>>>
>>> * ability to use system log rotation utility
>>
>> I really like that Boost::Log also provides an option to 
>> replace old log files (instead of creating new ones) when disk 
>> capacity reaches a certain threshold.  It might also be worth 
>> providing an option to simply limit the max log file count to 
>> N, which then replaces oldest first.  In some unexpected 
>> situations I've seen the disk fill from a badly behaved 
>> program, and these are a nice safeguard.
>
> +1
> * delete old files when:
>  - you have more than N files
>  - size of all log files more than ... Mb

Addition:
* delete old files afrer ... days (hours)

> * support compress rotated files (for examle, in zip or gzip 
> format)