Hi, Beacon is being used systematically. We even said we will integrate it in the image for Pharo 5 at the end of last year, but after the agitated start of the year, I did not push it anymore to not increase the level of agitation.
The only class name that encountered some opposition was BoundedBeacon. We also agreed that the only things we want from SystemLogger were the concrete connections to external storage. This was not done, but the idea was that we should first integrate them and then allow people to extend it with bindings to external storage. I use Beacon on a regular basis, and I extended it recently with a couple of more Signal types that can capture exceptions and stack information. You now also have a better integration in the inspector to be able to start/pause an in-memory log stream. In the process I also added the possibility to remove Announcements from an AnnouncementSet and I would like to push this in Pharo 6.0. One thing I would work on is to add to Annoucements the possibility of filtering announcements based on instances not just types. This is a longer term plan. Another thing to do is to ensure that the log signals are not expensive to create. For example, the ExceptionSignal, ContextStackSignal and MethodStackSignal manipulate thisContext right at creation time, while this should happen only when we actually capture it in a BoundedBeacon to manipulate/store it in a specific way. This part should be refined. @Dennis: it would be great to join efforts. The two frameworks look similar, but there are 2 significant differences: 1. SystemLogger has its own log events propagation mechanism, Beacon uses Announcements. 2. SystemLogger relies on levels of filtering, Beacon uses the mechanisms from Announcements to pick and choose at a fine grain level which log signals should be logged. For reference: - description: http://www.humane-assessment.com/blog/beacon/ - repository: http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~Pharo/Beacon Cheers, Doru > On Apr 19, 2016, at 2:59 PM, stepharo <steph...@free.fr> wrote: > > > > Le 18/4/16 18:28, Denis Kudriashov a écrit : >> Hello. >> >> Year ago Beacon and SystemLogger were announced. There was big discussion >> about them. And there were plans to provide single solution. What was done >> around that? > > Nothing. We should have done it at Cambridge and we just discussed. > I did not like some Beacon class names because they are totally confusing. >> >> What exactly should be merged between this libraries? Was Beacon or >> SystemLogger planned to be end solution? > We planned to merge SystemLogger into Beacon to use announcements >> We definitely need legacy logging tool for Pharo. And I am going to work on >> this direction. >> Personally I prefer metaphor and names from Beacon. But both libraries >> implement similar idea. > Remember that you want to have them short especially for the main one. This > is why in SystemLogger > we have Log instead of what it is LogObject if I remember correctly. >> >> Best regards, >> Denis > > -- www.tudorgirba.com www.feenk.com “Live like you mean it."
