Re: gEDA-user: [RFC 6/6] Generation of log files

[Steve Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John,

So for you an application setting of only use syslog.  For me I like a
text file in the directory that my project is in. One that says, hey I
didn't run to completion and here is where I stopped failing that the
last thing that the developers thought to write out and wasn't wiped out
by a multi-tasking system was ....

I don't expect perfection just a hint of where to start to looking for
imperfections I can influence.

Steve Meier

On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 21:37 -0700, John Doty wrote:
> On Jan 16, 2009, at 9:09 PM, Steve Meier wrote:
> 
> > To me the idea of a app.log associated with a project is that if some
> > step in the project goes "GAK" I would like to know why.
> >
> 
> The basic problem is that the software's point of view is not the  
> user's. Software is even better than priests at "straining out gnats  
> and swallowing camels". syslog() is designed to archive messages for  
> a reasonable time, so the user can find the rare useful message if  
> necessary.
> 
> John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
> http://www.noqsi.com/
> jpd@xxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> 
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