Re: [privoxy-devel] Crunch message format

[Mattes D. <ma...@po...>]

   Hi everyone,

   thought I'd chime in on this issue, since I am dependant on Win32 
branch of this project.

>> I'd prefer to use a single format that works for all of us.
>> If that turns out to be impossible, we could change the mingw32
>> version to use your initial proposal (after all, it's the only
>> version with GUI limitations).
> 
> I'm fine with that.   Are there any other Windows users on this list
> that care if the crunch reason is at the beginning or end of the log
> message?

   Crunch reason at the beginning (or rather, just after the datetime 
and PID) would be a great thing. I, too, look into log for crunches most 
of the time, and scrolling is bothering, escpecially nowadays that URLs 
get longer than their contents ;)

   If there's a change in the log format, why not dig in it even deeper? 
How about "splitting" the log lines into fields by using a tab divider? 
Then the GUI could re-map the order to whatever likes people have, and 
still the text-only /console version wouldn't be too damaged to read.

   Also note that there was once an effort put into splitting Privoxy 
core from its GUI, so that a Privoxy on one computer could be watched 
over from another computer, possibly from another OS (I'm still quite in 
favor of such a change myself). This scenario would benefit from 
splitting the log messages, too.

   Mattes