At 06:21 20/12/00 -0800, Diane Holt wrote: >Actually, rather than loading down various tasks with yet more attributes, >I'd prefer to see a more refined logging system, one where you could >specify levels of information you want. I think that's sort of been done >to some degree, with the MSG_INFO and MSG_WARN stuff, and with the Ant >flags -verbose and -debug, but I don't think it's refined enough. There's >too much similarity, I think, between verbose and debug -- and much of >what verbose prints out I'm not really interested in seeing, since I >usually only include -verbose when I'm trying to see the classpath or >command-lines for things. If I want to see all the property stuff, I use >the -debug flag.
The problem was these levels evolved and it would involve breaking backwards compatability to change it at this stage. So unless there is a concerted effort to maintain current output levels and just adding a new one then I am not sure I would support this move. Cheers, Pete *-----------------------------------------------------* | "Faced with the choice between changing one's mind, | | and proving that there is no need to do so - almost | | everyone gets busy on the proof." | | - John Kenneth Galbraith | *-----------------------------------------------------*
