Re: [boost] Boost.Log: Any Comments? (Was: [log] Permission to merge to trunk)

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost.Log: Any Comments? (Was: [log] Permission to merge to trunk)
From: Alexander Arhipenko (arhipjan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-04-12 03:31:57

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Andrey Semashev
<andrey.semashev_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 April 2013 18:43:05 Alexander Arhipenko wrote:
>>
>> This email about feature request.
>> I've requested this "feature" (better to say - existing feature behaviour)
>> several years ago and would like to repeat again.
>>
>> It would be very nice to have rotation feature work the same way as in e.g.
>> python logging library or Apache web server:
>> * latest file has the name filename.log
>> * previous file has the name filename.log.1 or filename.log.YYYY-MM-DD
>> AFAIK, it's impossible to achieve in current implementation.
>>
>> Andrey, what do you think about this?
>
> The library does not provide this behavior out of the box. But the file sink
> uses a file collector object to collect rotated files. This collector can be
> implemented by the user (it should derive from sinks::file::collector
> interface) and it should be possible to implement it the way you describe.

Hi,

>
> Would you like to submit such implementation?

Yes, I will provide the patch.

Regards