[Development] QLog ( Work on qDebug and friends)

[David Faure]

On Wednesday 01 February 2012 11:20:17 Lincoln Ramsay wrote:
> In summary:
> 1) Generated default logging config file (for sanity).

I agree (please use 
QStandardPaths::writableLocation(QStandardPaths::ConfigLocation) 
as the base directory for it)

> 2) QLog::setDefaultConfigFile for application writers.
> 3) QLOG_CONFIG_FILE for users.
+1

However I would like this to be called qDebug(AREA) rather than qLog(AREA).
Otherwise we are presenting a confusing situation of two competing debug-
output frameworks inside Qt. Couldn't the definition and use of categories be 
done in the newly merged corelib/global/qlogging.h, and shipped as part of the 
QMessageLogContext class? Then the default message handler can do what your 
qlog code is doing, i.e. write the stuff into the right log file, if the app or 
the user chose log files (by default I think this should still go to stderr, 
logging to files should only be an additional option).

I think this would be a much more integrated solution than asking people to 
choose between qDebug (stderr) and qLog (files) at development time, and then 
letting no choice to the final user, or to other developers working on the same 
code later on.

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