On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:09 AM, Björn Persson <Bjorn@rombobjörn.se> wrote:
> Alexander Ploumistos wrote: > >On the other hand, if every message that was not meant for the user > >were suppressed, it would be very difficult to troubleshoot such a > >program, should an actual bug come along, because you would need a > >different build to get useful output in the console or a logging > >service. > > Nah, it takes only a command line parameter to turn on debug logging. An > environment variable could also be used. A different build isn't needed. > It's no harder to make logging conditional at run time than it is to > make it conditional at build time. > The programs mentioned above do not have a debugging or verbosity flag, like e.g. "nmap -dd". The output can help pinpoint anything from minor aesthetic glitches, like a missing gtk theme, to crashes at startup. And that is a lot faster than querying the environment or running debuggers.
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