Re: [Boost-users] Logging library

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Logging library
From: Roland Bock (rbock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-09-25 12:27:12

Thanks for all the input! Sounds very promising indeed!

I am going to take a closer look soon :-)

Regards,

Roland

Boris wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:46:55 +0200, Roland Bock <rbock_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
>> Boris wrote:
>>> What's nice about the Poco library (I just had a quick look at the 
>>> documentation) that it seems to support various platform-specific 
>>> logging facilities. That would be another strong reason for me to use 
>>> a logging library instead of simply writing messages to a file myself.
>>
>> Poco also has filters, splitters (for sending one message to various 
>> sinks),
> 
> As Andrey's library uses attributes to route messages filtering and 
> splitting works, too. Every sink decides itself if a message should be 
> logged by looking at attributes and checking their values. That way if 
> you want to save more messages to file A for example you only need to 
> change the configuration of the respective sink and don't need to go 
> over your entire code base to log messages to file A everywhere.
> 
>> log rotation with optional compression,
> 
> There is 
> http://boost-log.sourceforge.net/libs/log/doc/html/header/boost/log/utility/rotating_ofstream/hpp.html 
> but it doesn't support compression I think.
> 
>> asynchronous logging and
> 
> This could help you: 
> http://boost-log.sourceforge.net/libs/log/doc/html/header/boost/log/sinks/threading_models/hpp.html 
> 
> 
>> [...]I'd love to have that functionality "boostified" :-)
> 
> I'm glad to see that I could find those features you mentioned in 
> Andrey's logging library. It looks like it's pretty much usable then. :) 
> As I said the only feature I miss is support for platform-specific 
> logging facilities (there is only syslog support currently; see 
> http://boost-log.sourceforge.net/libs/log/doc/html/header/boost/log/sinks/syslog_backend/hpp.html). 
> I also think it could be easier to adapt and extend (see 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/179360/).
> 
> Boris
> 
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