Extended Log Format or custom?

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Sat Jan 17 16:07:12 EST 2015


On 1/17/2015 2:13 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Right now most of the log analysis done with these apps is done in other
> LiveCode-based tools, so it would seem the choice is easily in favor of
> a custom format optimized for parsing and sorting in LC.
>
> But in all fairness, it's usually a good move to adopt common standards
> whenever possible, even at some cost to efficiency, since it allows the
> possibility of interoperability with other tools down the road if needed.
>
> What would you do?

LiveCode. If it's just for your own use, make it easy. When you hit the 
tipping point and you're using more non-LC tools than LiveCode ones, 
change the code, which may never happen.

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