Le 04/11/2016 à 00:34, Karl O. Pinc a écrit :
> On Mon, 31 Oct 2016 09:26:27 +0100
> Gilles Darold <gilles.darold@dalibo.com> wrote:
>
>> Le 30/10/2016 à 08:04, Karl O. Pinc a écrit :
>>> Have you given any thought to my proposal to change
>>> CURRENT_LOG_FILENAME to LOG_METAINFO_FILE?
>> Yes, I don't think the information logged in this file are kind of
>> meta information and CURRENT_LOG_FILENAME seems obvious.
> To me, the CURRENT_LOG_FILENAME symbol should contain the name
> of the current log file. It does not. The CURRENT_LOG_FILENAME symbol
> holds the name of the file which itself contains the name of
> the log file(s) being written, plus the log file
> structure of each log file.
>
> IMO, the name of the log files being written, as well as
> the type of data structure written into each log file,
> are meta-information about the logging data. So maybe
> the right name is LOG_METAINFO_DATAFILE.
>
> If you're not happy with making this change that's fine.
> If not, I'd like to make mention of the symbol name to
> the committers.
If it need to be changed I would prefer something like CURRENT_LOG_INFO,
but this is not really important. Please mention it, and the committer
will choose to change it or not.
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Gilles Darold
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