Re: [boost] Boost Logging library - first draft

From: Konstantin Litvinenko (Konstantin.Litvinenko_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-04-03 01:46:48

Hello, Caleb!
You wrote  on Mon, 2 Apr 2007 21:59:32 -0400:

 CE> I'd argue strongly against basing any Boost.Logging library on any of
 CE> the multitude of C++ ports of log4j (of which there are at least
 CE> log4cpp, log4cplus, log4cxx).  They are generally bloated, suffer from
 CE> a horribly baroque runtime configuration,

    I can say only about log4cpp. I don't see any problem with it runtime 
configuration. I can control all aspects of logging. Yes, sometimes function 
arguments and return values surprise me, but this can be easily fixed to be 
more natural. Also I never do configuring by hands - only from config files. 
Recently I added factories into library to make writting different kind of 
configurators easy task. About bloating. I know every peace of library and 
can say that there is samething not needed.

 CE>  and do not make good use of C++ language features.

    About what features you talk? All you need is: 1) configure - this is 
one call, say `logging::configure(filename)`. 2) Do logging  - 
`logger.error('Somethis wrong');`, `logger.infoStream() << "Value is " << 
value";`. What else do you need?

 CE>  Some of them are
 CE> also more or less dead projects (e.g. Apache's log4cxx's home page
 CE> mentions that "At this point, log4cxx-0.9.7 is substantially out of
 CE> date, has known serious deficiencies" but no successor version has been
 CE> released in over two years.

    Last release of log4cpp was at 2005/07/29 and it is not dead.

With best regards, Konstantin Litvinenko.