Re: Boost Logging Lib, v2 - added documentation
on Sun Oct 14 2007, rpbg123-AT-yahoo.com (Roland Pibinger) wrote:
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:24:17 CST, "Neal E. Coombes" wrote:
On Oct 11, 1:06 am, jtorjo2...@yahoo.com wrote:
I've added documentation for the Logging Lib v2 :
http://torjo.com/log2/(Logging homepage)
http://torjo.com/log2/doc/html/(documentation)
It may go without saying that I like my logging libraries policy
based! In 2005 I wrote the toast logging library (released open
source last month, see http://toast.sourceforge.net/group__loggroup.html),
which actually shares a lot of similarities to what you've got.
IMO, the age of 'boosted' libraries is gone. A library may be
configurable in some way as long as it provides reasonable defaults
('convention over configuration'). But configuration via policy
template parameters introduces high, unnecessary complexity that
hardly any real-world user is willing to accept.
I object to this false association between Boost libraries and
policy-based designs. PBD certainly has its place and value, but
Boost has historically in many cases been resistant to the adoption of
policy-based designs, and has often focused instead on designs that
favor type-erasure, most notably in boost::shared_ptr. These designs
avoid that complexity and preserve interface compatibility.
You need to look elsewhere to place the credit or blame for the
popularity of PBD.
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Dave Abrahams
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