rotating logs

[RMHogervorst]

Hi Ryan,

Is there a way to set rotating logs?
Loggit appends now, but wouldn't it be nice if you could rotate the logs?

[ryapric]

Sure, I can see use for that, especially if a lot of logs are being written out.

Maybe a rotator function that notifies that logs are "stale", based on a user-defined period, and an argument to write old logs somewhere else or delete them? Even call it logrotate(), for the sake of *nix consistency.

[ryapric]

In the meantime, you can use the latest dev version's get_logs(), and filter/write them out. Cumbersome, but will be addressed when the above is introduced.

[ryapric]

rotate_logs() will now handle this in v2.0.0. It will technically be a performance risk, as well as being manually-invoked (to alleviate those performance issues), but better automation of that might come in a later minor-version bump.

[ryapric]

This is now done, tested, and documented. Onus of rotation logic will be on the developer to trigger in their own code, to keep loggit as unobtrusive as possible.