Thx Chris, that's unfortunate it was many years until the Java world settled on something that worked in spite of having a built-in log package.
This is truly an area where we seem to repeat the mistakes of the past. On Thu, 17 Aug 2017, 18:11 Chris Hines <ggro...@cs-guy.com> wrote: > On Thursday, August 17, 2017 at 3:14:09 AM UTC-4, Henrik Johansson wrote: >> >> Sorry to but in but what happened to the whole logging initiative that >> was on going? >> Did I miss something about that? It seems very related to this. >> > > That discussion took place in this thread: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-dev/F3l9Iz1JX4g > > Some proposals were drafted (links to them are in the above thread). > Proposal authors also had two conference calls to discuss and share ideas > and opinions. Notes from those meetings were recorded in these two > documents: > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hovWbs19GvzfYDd-2RSYw4GN3h4vkbPUj_qO5cZa1uU/edit?usp=sharing > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IOaEPwmVZrvlCg5anWI0UC9yaZmihSiMvu6-471f8KY/edit?usp=sharing > > I don't know if the last two links will work for everyone because of > permissions on the docs. I don't own the docs, so I cannot change the > permissions. I will try to get the owner to open the permissions for > viewing. > > The general consensus (as I perceived it) was that logging use cases are > too diverse to make a standard interface that satisfies a wide enough > range. The group felt that persuading the community to treat logging as an > application concern and that libraries should return errors or provide > hooks rather than log directly. The last several slides of my talk (linked > to earlier in the thread) was my attempt to persuade/educate along those > lines. > > Chris > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
