Re: [boost] basic_debugstream (was: streams - basic_nullbuf)

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-09-25 07:08:11

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:44:49 +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote
> | I would also like to see this formalized into boost.  Previously I 
> have | written an null stream class to simplify the writing of 
> tracing code by just | putting trace statements in the code.  During 
> debugging you pop in a regular | stream and get output.  When you 
> are done you put in the null stream and like | magic all the output 
> disappears.  If you have a logging policy on components | then you 
> can switch in null stream when you want to suppress tracing.
> 
> On that tangent would a class like this be interesting? 

Absolutely.  There is clearly a need for a tracing / debugging library.  Every
project I've ever participated in reinvents some sort of library for tracing /
logging.  

>We have used this with some success during the years in LyX. Not 
>for tracing though.

For what then, logging?  Is there a difference?

Jeff