<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi everyone,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Coming from a short discussion in swift-corelibs-dev, I’m investigating the need of a standard logging API as a part of core libraries.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The motivation behind this would be having a unified and configurable set of APIs between all first-party modules and third party applications and libraries.</div><div class="">I think this will help each of us since right now we’re inventing our own solutions as well many bigger third-party library providers have formats and facilities of their own.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As I currently see it would be somewhat similar to python logging and possibly even structlog (<a href="http://www.structlog.org/en/stable/" class="">http://www.structlog.org/en/stable/</a>), with configurable formatters and handlers, including and not limited to remote loggers and syslog support.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’d love to hear your opinions and feedback on this and possibly start with some more formalized proposal and implementation if there’s enough support and need.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Alex</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>