Logging is a simple task with bit of complexity thrown in with multi-channel, configurability, formatting to be included. Picking up from Log4J that seems to be a standard:VisualAge has adopted it as is.. Log4S * Loggers ( capture ) * Appenders ( stream to multi channel ) * Layouts ( formatting with regex ) formatting especially in emitting the current timestamp and the class>>method automatically I feel Toothpick can be extended to the above and with clear separation of lean classes it can serve the enterprise class of apps well. While SimpleLog, seems equally good, but I have not used, seems to offer one more error level and similar appenders capability. **************************** One observation I have is for all logger libraries to adopt *same api for logging *error viz: logger level: #warn message: 'This warning' . ( category is #default and most often usable) logger category:#perf level: #warn message: 'Below threshold of 100 trans per second' . convenience messages thereafter also be the same api viz: logger info: 'This info' . logger warn: 'This warning' . logger error: 'this exception' et als.. It will make it easier to switch logging framework if so required in future. On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Göran Krampe <goran@krampe.se> wrote:
On 04/10/2013 03:22 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
shouldn't be better to use the newer paulepulpe or something like that done by Santiago Bragañolo? I guess he did not write it from scratch just because....
Personally I found Toothpick complicated back when I created SimpleLog.
I also felt that playing nice with the outside world was important when it comes to logging so SimpleLog reuses the syslog levels standard and has a UDP emitter into syslog as an option.
And a friend added a Morphic UI with filtering etc, very nice during development!
regards, Göran