On 09/01/2016 09:50, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 05:32:48PM -0800, Eric Rahm wrote:
>> Hi Folks-
>> 
>> With bug 1233881
>> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1233881> we landed
>> the ability turn on logging via prefs.
>> 
>> Lets say you have a log module "Foo", if you add a "logging.Foo"
>> pref and set it to "Debug" you will now see all output from the Foo
>> log module that is of Debug and higher importance.
>> 
>> Why is this so cool? Well now you don't need to restart your
>> browser to enable logging [1]. You also don't have to set env vars
>> to enable logging [2].
>> 
>> There is one caveat: if you don't use LazyLogModule and friends,
>> you don't get dynamic logging. So go update your loggers!
> 
> I now wish we had the same for the three or so different logging
> systems in use in javascript.

I think the Thunderbird version of log4moz supports using logging prefs
in this way since forever. So it's now down to two?

Phil

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