toolcontext: log all verbose infos in the log directory

[nit.git] / src / toolcontext.nit

diff --git a/src/toolcontext.nit b/src/toolcontext.nit
index a5b7ceb..62c184a 100644 (file)
--- a/src/toolcontext.nit
+++ b/src/toolcontext.nit
@@ -102,6 +102,9 @@ class ToolContext
        # Directory where to generate log files
        var log_directory: String = "logs"
 
+       # Stream in `log_directory` where all info messages are written
+       var log_info: nullable Writer = null
+
        # Messages
        private var messages = new Array[Message]
        private var message_sorter: Comparator = default_comparator
@@ -236,6 +239,10 @@ class ToolContext
                if level <= verbose_level then
                        print "{s}"
                end
+               if log_info != null then
+                       log_info.write s
+                       log_info.write "\n"
+               end
        end
 
        # Executes a program while checking if it's available and if the execution ended correctly
@@ -429,8 +436,10 @@ The Nit language documentation and the source code of its tools and libraries ma
                if opt_log.value then
                        # Make sure the output directory exists
                        log_directory.mkdir
-               end
 
+                       # Redirect the verbose messages
+                       log_info = (log_directory/"info.txt").to_path.open_wo
+               end
        end
 
        # Get the current `nit_version` or "DUMMY_VERSION" if `--set-dummy-tool` is set.