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Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 21:39:13 +0000
From: Tim Ellison <t.p.ellison@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [classlib][logging] format of log messages
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Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
> 
> On Dec 22, 2006, at 7:32 PM, Alexei Zakharov wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> IMHO it is ok to use our own format for log messages produced by
>> Logger.log() if the content is the same. BTW I like single-line style
>> (currently used in Harmony) even more. So I think we can move this
>> JIRA to non-bug-diff. What do others think? BTW I don't know any
>> serious applications that do the log parsing.
> 
> I can't tell you what apps do log parsing, but I think that we'd want to
> reproduce the same format if possible.
> 
> Maybe offer our format as an option?

I think it is quite important that we *do* match the default format of a
log message -- I think apps will expect it.

Regards,
Tim