Frequently Asked Questions about log5

Does once count as frequently?

The expanded categories specifications look very inefficient.

What is planned for log5? Will there be a movie?

What else?

Does once count as frequently?

Yes.

The expanded categories specifications look very inefficient.

This isn't a question but we'll address it in any case. If you look at category-specs, you'll some expansions that look pretty poor. For example:

   #<category 18: (OR (OR TRACE (OR INFO (OR WARN (OR ERROR FATAL))))  
                   (OR PLANNER EXECUTIVE)) -> (TRACE+ AGENT)> 

All of those nested ors are silly, it's true but remember that these logical forms are only evaluated when you start a sender -- not with every logging attempt. As such, this slight inefficiency is not worth worrying about.

What is planned for log5? Will there be a movie?

I'm using log5 in my daily work and am pretty happy with it. That said, here are some of the items left on the wish list:

Reporting is probably the biggest hole but it's probably worth either starting another project or trying to make log5's output look enough like log4j that one could use Chainsaw.

What else?

If you have a question that isn't addressed here, please let the log5 development list know and we'll try to answer it soon.