Cabler — logs cleanly and simply
Motivations
- The fundamental to-files logging
- The common contenders: info, warning, error. And then: heading for notable events in the program flow, debug for separately toggleable detailed tracing and die for instant suicide with a logged message
- As small as possible, no excess cruft wanted
- But no good features missed either
- Tags error outputs with unique ID's for exact cross referencing
- Timstamped entries, no date-part
- Cabler is intentionally designed for daily rotated logging — the date is part of the file-structure identification
- Avoids redundant noise in log
- Analysis spanning multiple days is an elaborate task. Assumed to be done through tooling / scripting
- full date timestamp rows should be reconstructed then
- Prefix-tagged outputs identifies different parts of the system in logging
- Errors are output both on stdout and stderr, except when streams go to TTY
- Browser-sympathetic, to avoid troubles in cross-libs
- Colors are used when output to TTY
- prefix gets a deterministic color based on the text, using hi-color, which may be rendered as the closest ANSI-color if the terminal doesn't support hi-color / 256c.
Examples
Will get to that... Check the test meanwhile.