Logging does not seem to kick in early enough

[mookid8000]

Check out this question on StackOverflow - it claims that an error in the configuration is not logged to the log file.

It should be logged to the file.

(if you're logging to a log file)

[jrossstocholm]

FYI: I have configured log4net with a RollingFileAppender and a ConsoleAppender ... and it doesn't appear in neither :-)

[mookid8000]

I remember now that this behavior is intentional!

The thing is that logging is introduced in the first place because you will not be around to catch any exceptions that might happen.

At application startup, though, the time where you initialize all kinds of stuff, you should always catch exceptions and log them and probably refuse to start up.

If Rebus would log exceptions that also surface to the caller, it would not be clear whose responsibility it was to the log the exception.

I hope that makes sense :)