guys, Log output should go to stderr.
The whole point of stdout and stderr is that things the program is meant to do go to stdout and everything meta about the program goes to stderr. This all relates back to the principle in unix that everything is a file and you should be able to pipe some things together. So If I'm writing a new version of sort and I want to use slf4j then having it output to stdout will just break it. I will not be able to do such things as find . -name '*.java' | while read F; do echo $(basename $F):$F ; done | sort | cut -d: -f2 OK, so not many people do such things now, but the principle remains - stdout is only for the real output of your program, so unless your program is called "logstuff" then log output should go to stderr. If your program does not produce any output that is streamable (eg only has a gui) then stdout should produce nothing. turning to the font of all knowledge: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stderr cheers _______________________________________________ user mailing list [email protected] http://slf4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
