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

[Dean M. B. <mik...@gm...>]

Hi Glyn!

On 5/23/07, Glyn Matthews <gly...@gm...> wrote:
>
> On 23 May 2007 00:49:24 +0200, Peter Simons < si...@cr...> wrote:
> > > 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?
>
>
>  Yes.  I think more generally its important at this stage to determine
> clearly our policies w.r.t. things like logging, thread-safety, security
> because we have to ensure that we don't hinder boost.network users from
> creating what Dean described as "Custom Web Services".  Someone is always
> going to have, for example, complex logging requirements.  Do we just
> provide a minimal system and say "X, Y and Z is up to you" or is it possible
> to anticipate as far as possible what library users might need?  I'd prefer,
> if possible, the former and I think everyone agrees with this, but it does
> require that we be careful.
>

I agree with providing a minimal yet comprehensive network library
completely. Logging is not within the realm of network operations --
and I have absolutely no intention of getting into (say, even near)
the Boost.Log discussion, which I honestly think is going nowhere.
Let's let the users choose how they want to log things and just throw
meaningful exceptions when there are exceptional conditions met in the
code. :)

> Forgive the sometimes basic questions, I am not as experienced with C++
> networking as other people on this list and I'm trying to understand how
> this will work conceptually.
>

I don't know about the others, but I certainly appreciate well asked
questions. :) I don't necessarily love answering, but I do love
questions nonetheless. :D

So please, if you have questions, don't hesitate to ask away. :-)

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