Re: [boost] Boost.Logging hex dumps (Was: Boost.Logging:formalreview)

From: Felipe Magno de Almeida (felipe.m.almeida_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-19 16:41:13

On 11/19/05, Yuval Ronen <ronen_yuval_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Hex dump is useful, absolutely, but so is a database access library, but
> we don't wish it would be a part of the log library, do we? This may be
> a rough analogy, but as several stated, text formatting of data
> structures is something that a log *uses*, not *implements*. Sorry for
> butting in like this, but I strongly feel that hex dump is out of scope
> for a logging library, and would waste John's precious time, while he
> could spend it on something that belongs to logging.

Then, maybe, it would be interesting to have one formatting layer in
the logging library. Like archives, that is a very nice solution to
formatting in the serialization library.
What is your opinion?

>
> Yuval
>

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