Re: [ros-dev] VOTE: Switch to Wine Debug System

[ea]

Hi Eric!

>   My vote is NO!
>
>  I'd like to keep the current debugging message system for the 
>  following reasons:
>  1) Establishing a channel-based debug message system will flood the 
>  developers with messages they don't need.
>
>  2) I cannot enable a message in a single place without hacks, like 
>  turning a TRACE into a FIXME. Alternative: introduce TRACE1, FIXME1, 
>  etc. which are always enabled. But this looks like the current system.
>
>  3) I don't like to make changes to the registry in order to change the 
>  debug channel settings. How will I debug the boot process from a CD or 
>  floppy disk? 

Would a compromise make you happy? I mean, current debugging does not 
change and we add a channel based debugging to support Wine's. We could 
write a pipe- or LPC-based debug message collector.

Emanuele