If no one -1s in next day or two I will do the following. After that I
think the only two things code-wise before release to look at is
excalibur.thread and possibly excalibur.pool (Berin how does it look?). Any
other knits code-wise???
At 02:25 26/4/01 +1000, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Before we go beta we should decide on whether or not we update Category
>setting. Currently when you set the priority of a category it sets just
>that category. However when you set the logtargets it sets it for the
>hierarchy (minus those who are explicitly set). For example consider the
>following categories
>
>a.1.p
>a.1.q
>a.1.r
>a.2.p
>a.3.p
>
>If I was to set the log target of to a file "/var/log/a" then all of the
>targets would write to this one target. If you also set the log target of
>a.1 to "/var/log/1" then all of a.1.* would write to this file while the
>others would write to the original file. So the algorithm is basically "If
>log target is not set get parent to write it out".
>
>Categories in logkit don't work this way (though in most other systems such
>as jSyslog/Log4j/protomatter/Logging JSR they do). The original reason was
>because I didn't have the time to do it right. I could have hacked it
>together (much the same way the other toolkits do) but that would kill
>performance (they effectively lookup parents priority on each access). By
>the time I had enough time to fix it to many peeps were using the kit and
>relying on functionality. As I convinced everyone to move to Log4j now
>would be the time to do it if ever (ie before beta).
>
>Simultaneously I would also merge the "Category" object into Logger objects
>and possibly add pluggable ErrorHandlers (if time was sufficient). The
>effects this would have on the "client" use is the following
>
>getLogger().getCategory().getPriority() -=> getLogger().getPriority()
>getLogger().getCategory().getName() -=> getLogger().getName()
>getLogger().getCategory().setPriority( priority ) -=>
>LogKit.setPriority( getLogger().getName(), priority )
>
>and the SPI would also change both semantics (as given above) and interface
>(merge getCategory/getLogger).
>
>Thoughts?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Pete
>
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