Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] Insights to the Message Class and Network Routines

[Peter S. <si...@cr...>]

Hi Glyn,

you wondered:

 > I do notice [mini-httpd uses] John Torjo's logging library. I
 > may have missed something but will this be present in a future
 > version of boost?

As far as I know, the original Boost.Log library was rejected
during the review. A new proposal recently showed up on the
developer's mailing list. I don't know much about it, though.

Personally, I access logging functions only through macros in my
programs to make sure the source code doesn't depend on any
concrete library. I hardly ever need sophisticated features. On
Unix systems, all I really need is syslog(3). :-)


 > Is it your intention to use this for boost.network too?

No. My preference would be that logging is the responsibility of
the users of this library. With the exception of debugging, I
wouldn't know what kind of log messages a networking library
would need to write. Providing functions that pretty-print data
structures into strings, say an Apache-style access log entry, is
one thing, but actually writing these strings to some output
device is another thing. How to do that is a problem ::main()
should solve.

Does that sound reasonable?

Best regards,
Peter