[boost] Re: Logging library - your own scenario!

From: Robert Zeh (razeh_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-19 12:45:45

Our current logging is very simple.  At start up, most of our
applications specify a log file, which can be gotten later via a
singleton.  The singleton allows global access to an output stream for
their logs.

There are a few things it doesn't do that we'd like in a logging framework:

        1) Automatic timestamps, which are currently done manually.

        2) Debug levels, so that some log messages could be ignored
           while others are actually written to the output stream.  It
           would be nice if we could specify debug levels as a stream
           manipulator, ie:

               log << debugLevel(5) << " reactor meltdown " << endl; 
        
           If the debug level is below 5, the reactor meltdown message
           is ignored.  Sometimes we dynamically adjust the debug
           level, so that we can get more information from a
           misbehaving application.

           Of course, you have to somehow specify when log level is
           being reset. I haven't thought that part through.

Robert Zeh
Manager, Applications Development
Error Free Software
http:://home.earthlink.net/~rzeh

John Torjo <john.lists_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Hi all,
> 
> In order to make the Logging lib as usable as it can be, I'd like to
> know what is *your* scenario, when using a Logging lib.
> 
> Thus, I'll do my best to make it as easy as possible to use my lib,
> and also tweak it to be easily usable in most common scenarios.
> 
> Even if you scenario fits an already described one, please just reply
> to that email with something like "mine too!", so that I'll know which
> scenarios are most common.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Best,
> John
> 
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