Re: Edition Engraver suppress log files

[Jan-Peter Voigt]

Am 15.10.2018 um 11:13 schrieb Urs Liska:
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> Am 15.10.2018 um 11:07 schrieb Jan-Peter Voigt:
>> Hi Urs,
>>
>> I combine the answers:
>> The *.edition.log file might be named differently - not .log - as this
>> file has a purpose outside the debug-log realm. And this is the reason
>> I'd vote against writing the edition-context-information in a global log
>> file.
> 
> Yes, that points in the right direction. In that sense the EE "log" is
> comparable to scholarLY's export files.
> 
>> But for all debug-logs piping them into one (optional) files makes
>> absolutely sense. How this file should be formatted is another question.
>> And sometimes it is helpful if the log is written before Lily crashes
>> ;-) so it might be worth writing immediatly.
> 
> That's also true, and I had thought about this. But with your previous
> comment we can solve the issue. If we're separating package specific
> export files from traditional logs the logs don't have to be sectioned.
> So we can format them similarly to usual log files, have a package
> identifier at the beginning of each entry and simply write them out
> immediately.
> 
> And if I think of it, most of that is already implemented in oll-core.
> There we have the functions  oll:log, oll:debug, oll:warn etc., combined
> with the possibility to set the log-level. The only things we'd need is
> the option to write the log or not, and the tagging of messages with the
> package prefix.
> 
> So I suggest you rename both the export filename and the option in the
> EE, and we'll do the other thing separately.
> OK I'll do that later and will think about the edition-context file
structure. The paths shall be copyable ...

Jan-Peter