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On Oct 21, 2010, at 3:23 AM, Yanni Chiu wrote:

> On 20/10/10 9:36 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
>> What I did basically is to define SimpleLogger like the public API. But
>> then, this class delegates to a LoggerStrategy. I created the following
>> implementations: TranscriptLoggerStrategy, NullLoggerStrategy,
>> FileLoggerStrategy and FixesFileNameLoggerStrategy.  In addition, I
>> created a superclass for them, marking the API with SimpleLogger. This
>> class is LoggerStrategy.
>> 
>> So, now you can:
>> 
>> - Enable and disable easily the logging (thanks to NullLoggerStrategy).
>> - Change on runtime WHERE or HOW to log (just change the strategy).
>> - Be able to write into a File, a Transcript, a FixedFileName, or nothing.
>> - Extend to you own strategy (FileAppendLoggerStrategy??
>> SocketLoggerStrategy?  etc...)
> 
> My 2cents. I've not used or looked at SimpleLogger, but recall that it was a 
> single class, plus a metacello config class.
> 
> The new functionality sounds very useful, but is it still simple. It sounds 
> like it was simple to add extra features - maybe because SimpleLogger was 
> simple. Will the next person who comes along find a similarly simple 
> implementation that can be easily adapted to specific needs.
> 
> A hierarchy of strategy classes no longer sounds simple. What if I don't need 
> all the different strategies loaded, will the configuration then allow 
> multiple build targets for various individual or groups of strategies. 
> Starting to sound complicated.
> 
> IMHO, it should be a fork: SomewhatSimpleOnItsWayToComplicatedLogging :)
> 
> -- 
> Yanni
> 
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