Other anticipated changes for 0.8.5, Part 2

[Brian Marick]

At 08:29 PM 10/22/99 , Mark S. Miller wrote:
>This only effects the Java/ELib programmer.  Brian Marick's tracing system 
>http://www.erights.org/to-be-sorted/Tracing.html is a thing of wonder if 
>used properly.  We aren't.  I had an ad-hoc mixture of the old legacy 
>class-based tracing categories and the new centralized categories.  For the 
>sake of consistency, I've changed to the centralized categories, but, Brian, 
>is this an improvement?  It seems we now have a coordination bottleneck in 
>creating new tracing categories.  The old system didn't have this problem.  

I don't understand. By "centralized categories", do you mean the ones
created with constructors like:

static private Trace subsystemTrace = new Trace("subsystem");

A bunch of those Trace objects are (were) created when the TraceController
is initialized, but any class/subsystem/code can create additional ones. So
there doesn't have to be a single central chunk of code where all Trace
objects are created. The predefined ones are there only for convenience,
not out of necessity.

Or do I miss your drift?

I'm on the road, so I can't look at the code right now. But I think that's
how it worked.

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