search

Boo0ns / arduino

Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/arduino
0 stars 0 forks source link

Adding logging support to the Arduino IDE software #478

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
What change would like to see?
I'd like to see logging enable in the Arduino IDE so that debugging the 
software is easier.

Why?
System.out.println type debugging is inefficient, and the IDE usually throws 
away console information like the results of System.out.println so you don't 
see the info.

Would this cause any incompatibilities with previous versions?  If so, how
can these be mitigated?

If log4j is used it introduces a new jar file. If the built in logging for Java 
is used, a Java version dependency needs to be checked.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by rick.rickanderson on 15 Feb 2011 at 3:50

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I think on most operating systems you can get to the output from 
System.out.println() somewhere.  This feature request seems too broad for me to 
know what exactly to implement.  Do you just want to link in log4j so that you 
can use it to insert logging statements in IDE code that you're developing?  If 
so, I'm not convinced it's needed.  If you want logging of whatever the IDE 
already does, then it seems like a lot of work to implement.  But if there's 
something more specific you're looking for, you could open a new issue for it.

Original comment by dmel...@gmail.com on 21 Feb 2011 at 3:59