Re: [GNUe-dev] Creating a system for debug-levels

[Johannes Vetter]

Am Freitag, den 11.02.2005, 09:20 +0100 schrieb Reinhard Mueller:
> Am Donnerstag, den 10.02.2005, 18:29 -0600 schrieb Jason Cater:
> > I like the idea of this. However, when I first started doing stuff in 
> > Common 
> > with --debug-level, I tried to keep all level 1 messages related to how the 
> > program was run and the user's environment. 
> > 
> > So, if a user is having issues, we could get them to send us the output of 
> > --debug-level=1 and we could get the basics of his system (i.e., Python 
> > version #, underlying operating system, parameters passed via command-line, 
> > etc.)
> > 
> > I would like to see some number reserved for this. 
> 
> I very much agree that this is a good idea.
> 
> Given the fact that we support more levels than 1-9 now, we could use
> debug level 2 for that environment.

Great idea !

> 
> This would make the following list:
> 
> 1: Warnings (things that shouldn't happen when everything was perfect)
>    (e.g. depreciation warning, unicode conversion warning etc.)
> 2: info about system environment (python version, command line args,
>    environment variables)
> 3: SQL commands sent to the backend, or similar information for non-SQL
>    backends
> 4-6: can be used by the tools like forms, reports, appserver
> 7-9: can be used by common
> 
> common could use the 3 levels available for example like:
> 7: messages from GDataSource, GConnections etc.
> 8: messages from the base and DBSIG2 dbdrivers
> 9: messages from special dbdrivers
> 
> It could make sense to use something in Forms like:
> 4: logging of events
> 5: messages from form level
> 6: messages from widget level
> 
> Appserver would do something like:
> 4: logging of calls through the API (local or over XMLRPC)
> 5: messages on geas* level
> 6: messages on data.py, langauge and classrep level
> 
> If others feel that this might be a good system, I could write an RFC --
> err -- technote about this and change the debug levels at least in
> common and forms. (I have a need for debugging there and it would help
> me much...)

Yes please, write a RFC -- err -- technote ... :)


> 
> Thanks,
> Reinhard

as it would ease optimization process ...

Thanks,
Johannes

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