[Pas-dev] logging

[Mental P. <Me...@Ne...>]

I'm ripping out the entire logging framework and replacing it with log4perl.

This is an incompatible change and WILL BREAK apps using pas.

I'm also writing a 5th chapter to the developers guide with the 
hows/why's of what the new logging frame work is and why you'd want to 
use it.

We have a couple choices.

1. (and what I'm assuming is the best path forward) We rip out log 
dispatch and start using log4perl. We declare a singleton for each 
package to be used for logging. (our $Log = Org::Bgw::Log::get_logger();)

2. We do the same thing as 1, but add a sub log method on the Base 
object that uses caller to instantiate and return a log object based on 
caller.


the second choice means people dont have to go changing a ton of code to 
deal with the abrupt change in logging. If we opt for 2, I'll add that 
AFTER I refactor the 'core' code.


-- 

Mental (Me...@Ne...)

  Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and
  cackling, telling me, "You're next."
  They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

CARPE NOCTEM, QUAM MINIMUM CREDULA POSTERO.

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