On 2007-04-05, Scott Woods <scottw@qbik.com> wrote:
Hi,
What requirements are ultimately targeted by this thread? I have had a variety of software requirements that I would broadly label as "logging" but am unclear as to whether those requirements might be met by software arising here, e.g. . . .
I started the thread, at least in part, in hopes of determining just what people were looking for :) As you point out, there seems to be a lot of ground covered by the domain broadly referred to as "logging", and it may turn out that no single implementation will ever suffice. If we can determine that, then we've really learned something important! So, to answer your question, the goal of this thread is to determine what we mean by logging. It's veered into some discussions of implementation and so forth, but I think that's important. I honestly think that this kind of open, preliminary discussion is the only way we'll ever come to grips with an adequate solution (or set thereof). So, given what I just said, your post is extremely helpful in that it lays out several disparate modes of logging. Thanks :) -- Austin Bingham Signal & Information Sciences Laboratory Applied Research Laboratories, University of Texas at Austin 10000 Burnet Rd., Austin, TX 78758 email: abingham@arlut.utexas.edu cell: (512) 799-2444 office: (512) 835-3832