Re: Logging Library-GSOC

2020-05-18 Thread Priyesh kumar
Hello David, Thanks for the response. *>What would be the actual benefits to using an external logging library really? The only thing I can think of is using structured debug messages (i.e. sending a (component, level, message) >tuple instead of a string to whatever receives the log messages, to

Re: Logging Library-GSOC

2020-05-18 Thread David Turner
Le lun. 18 mai 2020 à 10:49, Priyesh kumar a écrit : > Thanks for the reply... > > *>I recommend not baking details of the logging library into the rest of > FreeType whenever possible. One thing that can be done is to send > structured logs from FreeType, i.e. instead of >FT_Message() sending a

Re: Logging Library-GSOC

2020-05-18 Thread Priyesh kumar
Thanks for the reply... *>I recommend not baking details of the logging library into the rest of FreeType whenever possible. One thing that can be done is to send structured logs from FreeType, i.e. instead of >FT_Message() sending a string to whatever log, the function could instead send a

Re: Logging Library-GSOC

2020-05-18 Thread Vincent Torri
On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 9:28 AM David Turner wrote: > > > > Le lun. 18 mai 2020 à 09:03, Priyesh kumar a écrit : >> >> Hey, >> I wanted to ask that after selecting desirable external library how should I >> proceed: >> 1. Should I stick to the existing debugging facility in which filtering of

Re: Logging Library-GSOC

2020-05-18 Thread David Turner
Le lun. 18 mai 2020 à 09:03, Priyesh kumar a écrit : > Hey, > I wanted to ask that after selecting desirable external library how should > I proceed: > 1. Should I stick to the existing debugging facility in which filtering of > log messages is based on debug level comparisons of various

Re: Logging Library-GSOC

2020-05-18 Thread Priyesh kumar
Hey, I wanted to ask that after selecting desirable external library how should I proceed: 1. Should I stick to the existing debugging facility in which filtering of log messages is based on debug level comparisons of various FreeType's components and only use the external library to write log

Re: Logging Library-GSOC

2020-05-15 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I was exploring the logging libraries as per the requirements, and I > was thinking of adding functionality to automatically check whether > the logging library is installed or not as FreeType does for other > libraries like Harfbuzz and libpng. Not sure whether it makes sense at all to use

Re: Logging library GSoC Project

2020-02-07 Thread Werner LEMBERG
[Sorry for the very late reply. I had to prepare a conference and a concert, and I took a vacation, too, with limited e-mail access.] > Hi, I am interested in doing the project, “Replace FreeType's > tracing and debugging facilities with an external logging library.” > Is this still open for

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