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From: "Ron Coutts" <rcoutts@envistatech.com>
To: "'Ant Developers List'" <dev@ant.apache.org>
Subject: RE: TeeLogger class
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 08:42:06 -0700
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Thanks for the info Jan.  I will review the docs you pointed me to and
likely put together a proper contribution a week or two.

Ron

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan.Materne@rzf.fin-nrw.de [mailto:Jan.Materne@rzf.fin-nrw.de] 
> Sent: December 3, 2003 12:58 AM
> To: dev@ant.apache.org
> Subject: RE: TeeLogger class
> 
> 
> The manual contains information about contributing in the 
> section "Developing with Ant | Ant Task Guidelines"
> (http://ant.apache.org/ant_task_guidelines.html)
> 
> 
> The tutorial "Tasks using Properties & Filesets" uses that for 
> explaining how to contribute a new task. (document not 
> finished yet) But maybe the informations already present will 
> help you.
> http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/ant/docs/manual/t
> utorial-tasks-
> filesets-properties.html?rev=1.2&content-type=text/plain#contribute
> 
> 
> Directly to the first question in the "Contribute" area of 
> the tutorial
>    "is our task welcome? :-) Simply ask on the user list"
> 
> I thought for myself to implement a TeeLogger, so please 
> contribute it :-)
> 
> 
> 
> Jan
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ron Coutts [mailto:rcoutts@envistatech.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 7:46 AM
> > To: dev@ant.apache.org
> > Subject: TeeLogger class
> > 
> > 
> > One problem that I've had with Ant is that the logging
> > facilities allow
> > directing the output to either the console or a log file, but 
> > typically
> > not both.  This is fairly restrictive when you want to watch the
> > progress of a build and have an log of build that is 
> identical to what
> > went by on the console.  So in the spirit of the 'tee' command line
> > utility I've developed a TeeLogger class that extends 
> > DefaultLogger and
> > works a bit like MailLogger and a bit like XmlLogger.  It can 
> > direct log
> > output to two sinks simultaneously such as to the console and 
> > a file or
> > to two files at the same time (not that this latter feature is worth
> > much).
> > 
> > Here are some examples of specifying TeeLogger on the Ant
> > command line:
> > 
> > ant -logger com.envistatech.tools.ant.TeeLogger
> > Directs log output to console and log.txt by default.
> > 
> > ant -logger com.envistatech.tools.ant.TeeLogger
> > -DTeeLogger.file=mylog.txt
> > Directs log output to console and mylog.txt.
> > 
> > ant -logger com.envistatech.tools.ant.TeeLogger
> > -DTeeLogger.file=mylog.txt -logfile mylog2.txt
> > Directs log output to mylog.txt and mylog2.txt.
> > 
> > 
> > I think this might be useful to others and I wouldn't mind
> > contributing
> > it.  So my questions are, is this a worthy contribution and 
> > if so what's
> > happens next?  This would be my first code contribution and 
> I'm not at
> > all familiar with the process of contributing code.
> > 
> > Ron
> > 
> > 
> > 
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