Re: [boost] [log] Comments

Subject: Re: [boost] [log] Comments
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-15 14:56:37

On 03/15/2010 08:58 PM, Stewart, Robert wrote:
>> Therefore, it's useful to provide a flexible library with a few
>> most obvious and frequent cases available at hand and a great
>> potential of extension and configurability.
>
> Certainly a good approach.  The issue is determining the common use
> cases you should support.

Right. But I guess, there will always be someone not happy with the choice.

>>> * It appears that out of the box, the proposed library does not
>>> address this component/severity style of logging that I've
>>> explained above. The proposed solutions at:
>>>
>>> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/200793
>>>
>>> sound relatively complex.
>>
>> I can't provide logger features for every case. Sometimes users
>> will have to extend the library. Writing a class template with a
>> couple constructors and a trivial method doesn't look very complex
>> to me.
>
> Vladimir's point is that severity/component is a very common use case
> that you should support out of the box.  That's how our logging
> works, so Vladimir and I would have to recreate the same wheel if you
> don't provide direct support.

The library supports severity out of the box. Two different severities 
are unexpected and thus need a little more effort to support.