Re: A GNUNET_log oddity

[Christian Grothoff]

On 31.08.21 15:41, Alessio Vanni wrote:
>> As for applications using libgnunetutil, well, they again need to copy
>> that mechanism into their configure-scripts, or they won't get
>> DEBUG-level logging. I think that's OK.  That said, we _may_ be able to
>> improve the (developer) handbook documentation on logging on this point.
> 
> Then if no one minds, I'm going to flip the value given to
> GNUNET_EXTRA_LOGGING when the configure script doesn't define it, from 0
> to 1, so that third-party application developers can leverage the full
> range of error levels during development (e.g. me, while I test things
> out in my application and decide to get swamped by messages only when
> something strange happens.)  I'm not sure if giving larger values, like
> GNUnet does, is meaningful when the goal is to get debug messages. If
> even more verbosity is required, developers should probably use their
> own mechanism.

Sounds good to me.

-Christian