RE: [boost] Logging Library -- Formal Review Request

From: Spencer.Collyer_at_[hidden]
Date: 2005-05-19 10:55:38

> > At my work we have a logging library that has concepts of 
> log topics and
> > log levels. These are orthogonal - any particular log message is
> > associated with one topic and has one level, but the messages for a
> > given topic can have any level specified. The topics are 
> arranged in a
> > tree-like hierarchy, and if a minimum logging level is 
> specified for a
> > topic it also affects any subtopics of that topic which 
> have not had a
> > logging level specifically set.
> 
> I would assume what you call "topic" here, is what I've done by using 
> loggers/hierarchy. Have you read the docs?

John, what we call topics are indeed analogous to your loggers.

I have indeed read the docs and found a lot to like in the proposed
library, but it does need the ability to specify different levels for
different messages on a particular log (IMHO, of course :) )

Spencer

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