I see where you are going and personally, I like the suggestion.
In any case, couldn't there be an approach similar to those used with
most logging frameworks. In GLib, there are the following options:
G_LOG_LEVEL_ERROR
G_LOG_LEVEL_CRITICAL
G_LOG_LEVEL_WARNING
G_LOG_LEVEL_MESSAGE
G_LOG_LEVEL_INFO
G_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG
I have no clue yet which ports exist, aside from (current-output-port),
(current-warning-port) and (current-error-port).
I imagine to create 5 virtual ports: (current-debug-port),
(current-info-port), (current-message-port), (current-warning-port) and
(current-critical-port). These would either be hooked up to the
(current-output-port), except for (current-critical-port) which should
be hooked up to (current-error-port).
The normal guile operation would be to have warning, critical and error
messages to be fired. Guile should then get two additional options:
--verbosity=<level>, where level should be "debug", "info", "message",
"warning", "critical" and "error".
--quiet, which suggests to skipp verbosity altogether and to display
nothing anymore aside from writes to (current-output-port).
Guile should by default function in the "info" verbosity mode.
If verbosity is a nice fluid, one could change the verbosity level when
deemed necessary.
And I would be happy to work this out.
On 03/02/14 22:13, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
Hi,
Sjoerd van Leent <svanle...@gmail.com> skribis:
- scm_puts_unlocked (";;; compiling ", scm_current_error_port ());
- scm_display (source, scm_current_error_port ());
- scm_newline (scm_current_error_port ());
+ if (scm_is_true (*scm_loc_display_auto_compilation_messages))
+ {
+ scm_puts_unlocked (";;; compiling ", scm_current_error_port ());
+ scm_display (source, scm_current_error_port ());
+ scm_newline (scm_current_error_port ());
+ }
FWIW, I think the approach should rather be to have a special port (a
fluid) for such things, say, ‘current-notification-port’. We’d simply
replace scm_current_error_port by scm_current_notication_port above.
The command-line option could be --quiet. It would bind both
current-notification-port and current-warning-port to a void port.
WDYT? Would you like to adjust the patch accordingly?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
