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Re: How to implement diagnostic messages?

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On 09/ 9/11 01:58 AM, Rui Maciel wrote:
> In some applications it's useful to have, at least in the development
> stages, a way to output diagnostic messages in order to help developers
> check what's happening under the hood.  Yet, although this can be useful and
> in some times even invaluable, there isn't much information on what are
> considered to be good practices regarding the implementation of diagnostic
> messages.

That's because everyone has their favourite!

> With this in mind, what are your views on how to implement diagnostic
> messages?  Are simple outputs to stderr enough or are there better ways to
> handle this?

You typically have three choices in a hosted environment:

1) standard output/error
2) a log file
3) system log

All have their good and bad points and I've seen them all (especially 2 
and 3) used by well regarded applications.

-- 
Ian Collins

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How to implement diagnostic messages? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2011-09-08 14:58 +0100
  Re: How to implement diagnostic messages? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-09-08 10:57 -0700
    Re: How to implement diagnostic messages? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2011-09-08 20:53 +0100
      Re: How to implement diagnostic messages? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-09-08 14:14 -0700
        Re: How to implement diagnostic messages? "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2011-09-09 09:30 +0200
    Re: How to implement diagnostic messages? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2011-09-11 18:27 +0100
      Re: How to implement diagnostic messages? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-09-11 11:44 -0700
  Re: How to implement diagnostic messages? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-09-09 10:33 +1200
    Re: How to implement diagnostic messages? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2011-09-11 18:33 +0100
  Re: How to implement diagnostic messages? James Waldby <not@valid.invalid> - 2011-09-10 00:17 +0000
    Re: How to implement diagnostic messages? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2011-09-11 18:41 +0100
      Re: How to implement diagnostic messages? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-09-11 11:48 -0700
        Re: How to implement diagnostic messages? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-09-12 08:47 +1200
          Re: How to implement diagnostic messages? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-09-11 14:56 -0700
            Re: How to implement diagnostic messages? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-09-12 15:00 +1200

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