Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote: > Frank Benoit wrote: > > Andrei Alexandrescu schrieb: > >> Zz wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> Are there any plans for a logging library in Std Phobos 2.0? > >>> > >>> Zz > >> I wanted to add logging support for a while now but am undecided about > >> the API to use. Log4J is quite popular but quite complicated. There are > >> a number of simpler APIs out there but I couldn't figure out which is > >> the best. > >> > >> If anyone has ideas and/or code to contribute, that would be great. > >> > >> > >> Andrei > > > > Why not start with the one from tango? > > Because it's not my code and every discussion on licensing ends up > confused. What we can do in Phobos is following e.g. the Log4J API, > which as far as I understand Tango implements or at least draws > inspiration from. But then by browsing this group a while ago I figured > that Tango added a Trace module because some people deemed the logging > API too complicated. > > > Why has everything to be > > different? > > Nobody said it has to be different. > > > If it really is not important, why do you have to make it > > different than tango? Every code that uses tango and phobos, or wants to > > support both has to reimplemnent an intermediate abstraction layer. > > Again, I don't *have* to make it different, but I can't *copy* it > either. There are two other things to consider: (a) Phobos' logging can > take advantage of D2 features; (b) Phobos' logging should be well > integrated with the rest of itself, e.g. it may be odd to have one way > to format things in stdio and an entirely different way in the log, or > to have the logging infrastructure incompatible with the stream > infrastructure. > > That all being said, I don't see a lot of point in making Phobos' > logging 100% identical with Tango's. Phobos2 and Tango2 will be usable > together, so there's no point in the duplication - if you want Tango's > logging mechanism, you just use it. So there will be no point in > "supporting both" because both can coexist. > > > Andrei
It would be good to have one that makes use of D2's features have you looked at "simple-log", I'm not a java programmer but I do know some people who seem to like it more than Log4J. here is the link https://simple-log.dev.java.net/ Anyway whatever the API looks like one would be welcome. Zz
