Re: [Help-smalltalk] Logging facility for GNU-smalltalk

[Joachim Jaeckel]

Hi Stefan,

maybe I got you wrong (if that's the case, please excuse),

> Logging should always go to a stream and not be hardwired to
> assume files.

Does that mean, that the user who uses the logging-functionality should 
care about handling the stream?

I don't think so. Logging should be less user-interactive as possible in 
my opinion. (And configurable to fullfill the needs of the programmer.)

Logging to a stream should be an option in my opinion but not the usual 
case...

> And it is much easier to test:
>
> logger logSomething: 'whatever'.
> logger logStream contents == 'whatever'
>
> You don't want to test that reading and writing a file works,
> that's Paolo's job :-)

That's something where I absolutely agree!

> Also, one could implement a "tee" like functionality, i.e.
> duplicating the log output on both stdout and a file. Or even
> piping it (eg via nc) to a remote location.

That's something, what I would like to see in the logging interface.

Regards,
Joachim.