verbosity

[Adrian Otto]

David,

Your proposed usage of verbosity levels sounds reasonable to me.

Adrian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Seppanen [mailto:eds at reric.net]
> Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2002 8:41 PM
> To: bogofilter-dev at aotto.com
> Subject: Re: verbosity
>
>
> [ taking a private email suggestion over to the list.  -Eric ]
>
> On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 04:09:10PM -0400, David Relson wrote:
> >
> > While we're on the subject of testing, I've been wondering what to due
> > about verbosity levels.  The subject came up because I added some
> > verbose>=2 code to help understand placing of tokens in the extrema
> > array.  Of course, verbose>=2 also triggered getcount:
> messages, which I
> > didn't want.  I suspect that every developer will have a
> different set of
> > information that they want to see for each verbosity level.
> Does either of
> > you have a grand scheme for handling this?
>
> I think getcount messages should go to (verbose >= 3).  I have been
> thinking along these lines:
>
> verbose==1: more information for normal users who just want a bit more
> detail on what's going on.
>
> verbose==2: more information for developers, limited to output that won't
> be more than a few lines.
>
> verbose>=3: more information for serious debugging, OK to start printing
> hundreds of lines.  Assume that anyone using this is using grep to find
> what they're looking for.
>