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           Summary: Better internal debugging for sorcery
           Product: Sorcery
           Version: Untargetted future release
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Unknown
        AssignedTo: sm-sorcery-bugs AT lists.ibiblio.org
        ReportedBy: dmlb2000 AT gmail.com


I think it'd be nice to have a better system of debugging than 'all or none'.

Some ideas:
1) debug levels, So from a very high level debug output to a very specific low
level output (set -x for some of it is what I'm thinking)

2) Easy to use filters on the compiled debug log... so we can pick specifics 
out
of a potentially very large debug log. I was thinking on prepending some
variables like the following.

<script-run>:<script-arguments>:<file-name>:<function-name>:<function-arguments>:<debug
message>

With awk sed and grep one could easily get the specific information they are
looking for when debugging sorcery.

Any other thoughts or ideas would be great ;)


------- Additional Comments From pmahon AT sourcemage.org  2006-08-27 02:34 
-------
Debugging isn't all or none. It's all, some, or none.

There is a section in libmisc which defines STD_DEBUG, although it's not used
much yet. If you just put:
$STD_DEBUG
at the top of a function it'll print the file it's in, function name, args, 
line
number, and the debug message. 

The problem with adding lots of debugging messages to make the debug levels
useful is that every debugging message added slows things down. 

Don't forget that you are able to surpress debugging of messages from any file
by setting DEBUG_<file.>=no assuming the debug message starts with the file 
it's
from.



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