[Yum-devel] Logging (no excitement)

[Tim Lauridsen]

James Bowes wrote:
> Hi:
>
> Tim Lauridsen wrote:
>> I dont know if this patch is the right way to go, it breaks the 
>> logging in the yum API, Programs using the API like yumex overloads the
>> log, error, filelog methods in yumbase to redirect the log output fx. 
>> to a TextView, other application build on the yum API. yum utils, 
>> pup, pirut might be affected too.
>
> It should be easy enough for yumex or other frontends to get ahold of 
> the logging output by creating a new StreamHandler and registering it 
> with the logging system to catch yum's output.
>
> One of my goals for this was so that other programs using the yum API 
> wouldn't have to inherit from YumBase and overload the log methods to 
> grab the output. With python's logging module, yum can log where it 
> wants to, yumex can display the logging info in a text widget, and Joe 
> Developer's crazy plugin can send the output to his yum log 
> aggregating Internet appliance. or something.
>
That make sense to me, the more i study the code, the more sense it make 
to me

Tim.