GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

[Björn Persson]

Alexander Ploumistos wrote:
>On the other hand, if every message that was not meant for the user
>were suppressed, it would be very difficult to troubleshoot such a
>program, should an actual bug come along, because you would need a
>different build to get useful output in the console or a logging
>service.

Nah, it takes only a command line parameter to turn on debug logging. An
environment variable could also be used. A different build isn't needed.
It's no harder to make logging conditional at run time than it is to
make it conditional at build time.

-- 
Björn Persson
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