[nama] Re: Logging

On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 07:30:17PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 05:02:14PM -0400, S. Massy wrote:
> > I really like how you
> > can get can get ecasound to log to file simply by defining
> > ECASOUND_LOGFILE to a string matching the file you want it to log to.
> 
> Okay, the logfile will be determined by the NAMA_LOGFILE
> environment variable, with a default of $HOME/nama.log. 
Great! But why not chuck it to STDERR unless the variable is defines?
This way one can even redirect logging as one wishes.

> 
> For logging categories, I'm thinking of using multiple command
> flags. For example: 
> 
> nama -L fx -L setup -L graph
> 
> An alternative approach might be to provide that information
> in .namarc.
I think the first alternative is fine. Possibly with a "-L help" option
to get a list of modules.

May your logging be fruitful.

Cheers,
S.M.

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