[Development] Cake and eating it too for qDebug printing to system log - https://codereview.qt-project.org/89357

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday 09 July 2014 16:15:16 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Heuristically determine at runtime. On all platforms (including Windows),
> use  only the fact that a terminal is present. If a terminal is present,
> write to it using stderr. Otherwise, write to the system log.

This proposal is now implemented in https://codereview.qt-project.org/89357.

Since this thread ended without a counter-proposal, this is an implicit 
approval on my proposal. The only proposal was an addition: to have an 
application-wide flag so that the application could decide where to send the 
data, but there was no strong support for it.

> * Implications for unit tests:
> Except for the unit tests testing logging to the system log in the first
> place,  QT_LOGGING_TO_CONSOLE=1 should be set. I think QtTest itself should
> do that.

This is in https://codereview.qt-project.org/91336.

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  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center