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[Johan Hake <hake@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 02 July 2009 22:36:08 Anders Logg wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 07:15:57PM +0200, Johan Hake wrote:
> > On Thursday 02 July 2009 18:25:23 DOLFIN wrote:
> > > One or more new changesets pushed to the primary dolfin repository.
> > > A short summary of the last three changesets is included below.
> > >
> > > changeset:   6402:ff1bebf2949a37466dac76745d5e024bf61f5b03
> > > tag:         tip
> > > user:        Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > date:        Thu Jul 02 18:25:23 2009 +0200
> > > files:       dolfin/log/Logger.cpp dolfin/log/Logger.h
> > > dolfin/log/Progress.cpp dolfin/log/log.cpp dolfin/log/log.h
> > > dolfin/parameter/parameters.cpp dolfin/parameter/parameters.h
> > > description: Work on move to new global parameter system:
> >
> > It would be cool to populate a set of strings with
> > valid "linear_algebra_backends". This could be done with some IFDEFS and
> > then in the final p.add in GlobalParameters, we add the parameters with
> > valid options.
>
> Yes, that would be good, and probably not that difficult. Some
> appropriate #ifdefs and push_backs in GlobalParameters.h should do the
> trick.
>
> I haven't added ranges for any of the parameters, but since the new
> parameter system supports range checks, that should also be done.

Ok.

> > > - Remove coupling between log system and parameter system
> > > - Added new functions set_log_level, get_log_level
> > > - Added new function logging(true/false), replacing dolfin_set("output
> > > destination", "silent") - Optimizations in log functions to check if
> > > log system is active before sending messages through log system
> >
> > On a side note. Is it possible to hand an optional stream or file as the
> > log stream, as we do in the logging system of python?
>
> Already implemented (by Ola). I'm working on some updates which will
> make it directly available by
>
>   set_output_stream(std::ostream& stream);

Nice!

Johan