On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 05:34:43 +0400, Walter Bright
<[email protected]> wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
At my workplace we're using Google's logging library glog
(http://google-glog.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/glog.html), and the
more I use it, the more I like it. It's simple, to the point, and
effective.
I was thinking it would be great to adapt a similar design into
Phobos. There will be differences such as use of regular argument lists
instead of << etc., but the spirit will be similar. What do you think?
Ok, I'm going to get flamed for this, but,
I don't get it
I do logging all the time. It's usually customized to the particular
problem I'm trying to solve, so it involves uncommenting the right
printf's and then running it. Voila. Done.
The logging libraries I've seen usually required more time spent
installing the package, getting it to compile, reading the
documentation, finding out it doesn't work, rereading the documentation,
etc., etc., than just putting in a #...@$%^ printf, and Bang, it works, cut
& print.
Even worse, the logging libraries are loaded with a grab bag of trivial
features to try and puff it up into looking impressive. They always
seemed to me to be a solution in search of a problem.
Shields up! what am I missing about this?
Probably, that's because you don't write complex software with lots of
independent modules that run for a long time.
A good logging library is a must, alongside with a corresponding log
parsing tool.
