[Os-project-managers] Updates to OSoL schema

[Horand Gassmann]

Hi guys,

we did not get to talk at today's meeting about the stuff below. I  
think I'd like to implement it, since this part is easy, but I need to  
know if you are OK with it, especially the numbering of print levels.

> I think it is mandatory that the user be able to
> 1. Set a global print level for messages to stdout
> 2. Set a file name to which to send (possibly different) output
> 3. Set a global print level for messages to that file
>
> In addition it would be nice (for debugging purposes) to be able to  
> control *one* area in which the global print level is overridden. At  
> this point, though, I no longer consider this essential.
>
> I think we can achieve all of these things with just three command  
> line options:
>
> printLevel <int>   to control the print level of stdout
> outputFile <name>  to set the name of a file for (possibly different) output
> filePrintLevel <int> to set the global print level for the secondary  
> (file) channel
>
> The point is that a lot of sins can be hidden in a print level. We  
> will have, I'd say, about 10 print levels max, with perhaps more  
> than one level for debug output. Let's be generous and double this  
> to 20. And we will have, I don't know, 10 areas. So the print level  
> scheme could be this:
>
> default print level 1
> if printLevel < 100, global print level (for all areas)
> otherwise printLevel  div 100 gives the number of an area (we need  
> to use enumerations for these things, anyway), and printLevel mod  
> 100 gives the print level in that area. (Same for filePrintLevel.)
>
> So
>
> filePrintLevel 3
>
> says: use global print level 3 in all areas;
>
> filePrintLevel 512
>
> says: use the default print level in all areas, but use print level  
> 12 in area 5, etc.
>
> Comments? Do you think this can work? Is it too baroque? Overkill?  
> What do you say?

Cheers

gus



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