RE: [boost] Proposal: Logging library

From: Terence Wilson (tez_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-04-08 21:51:00

I second that emotion. In fact, I just spent 3 weeks putting together
something with everything you ask for except thread awareness. Logging
classes seem to be a candidate for the most reinvented wheel- they seem
to pop up every six months or so in the magazines.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: boost-admin_at_[hidden] 
> [mailto:boost-admin_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Ernie Makris
> Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 6:48 PM
> To: boost_at_[hidden]
> Subject: [boost] Proposal: Logging library
> 
> 
> Hello Fellow Boosters,
> 
> I'd like to propose the design and development of a logging 
> library to be included in boost.
> 
> I've been thinking about what boost lacks, and this is one 
> area of utility that I think would benefit the boost community.
> 
> There are a great many examples of logging examples. Some 
> designs I have been thinking about are:
> - based on iostreams coupled with the work being done with the format 
> library
>   by Samuel Krempp.
>   It would look like the following:
>   log << log_debug << log_format("%e %1") % "config file not found";
> 
>   where there would be a log formatter that would have extra format 
> specifiers.
>   For example, the %e above could print the errno for a failed file 
> operation.
> 
>   The log stream would support levels, and a default level. etc... 
> Everything
>   you would expect from a capable logger.
> 
> - Something similar to log4j. There is already a log4cpp, 
> which is a port
>   of log4j to C++.
> 
> Some basic requirements:
> - Some basic sink types (file, console, ring buffer...)
> - Ability to log based on levels
> - Ability to turn logging on/off dynamically
> - Focus should be on good performance, and usability of the 
> API. Make it
>   easy to setup and use logs.
> - Useful, built in format specifiers.
> - As fast a possible.
> - Parameterizeable thread safety. Don't penalize programs 
> that do not need 
> thread
>   safe logs.
> 
> Is there any interest in such a library.
> 
> Thanks
> Ernie
> 
> 
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