- The doc formatter is now Chef::Config[:log_location]-aware
and will log to files as well
- There is now consistency where doc formatter output never
surprisingly changes to log formatter based on destination
- The "cli" log_location and the "config" log_location are now
treated separately, so a log_location in the client.rb will
always force output to a logfile, in addition to output
to STDOUT if necessary
- The logic around STDOUT is now simplified, if its open we
log to it, if its closed we don't, if you're daemonized we
assume you're capturing STDOUT via your process manager
- The log_location variables are now Arrays
Things not done:
- The cli can't specify an array, it would be nice to support
an accumulator pattern here. Would also need to support
disabling STDOUT logging though.
- Using the syslog or winevt logging devices requires the use
of the logger, which precludes using the formatter.
- Some people may want to have log-formatter style output
to the log file and doc formatter style output to STDOUT
which is not very possible right now. Right now we are
consistent in that you get either the logger both places
or the formatter both places. This use case is complicated
by the fact that they will want :info level logging for
the logger, but :warn level logging for the doc formatter
and that is another global.
- To do that latter thing right would probably require sending
log messages to the formatter, and supporting a different
log level in the formatter vs. the logger and then supporting
the STDOUT/cli loggging being the formatter, while the
log_location/config logging being the logger.
Those were way out of scope for what I could get done for Chef-16.
Signed-off-by: Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org>