Allow log file to have ".log" or custom file extension

[sloganking]

Feature Request

Crates

tracing-appender

Motivation

Functions like tracing_appender::rolling::daily() have an argument for file_name_prefix but none for file_name_suffix or file_extension. From what I can tell, there is currently no current method to have tracing write to log files that have the .log file extension. This is quite annoying as other programs make use of the .log extension. This includes bat and vscode which syntactically highlight .log files. But not files created by tracing since tracing does not create files with the .log extension.

Proposal

Allow users to tell tracing to give their log files the .log extension. Or allow them to specify the file extension they would like their log files to have.

[IceSentry]

This was done in this PR #2225 but for reasons I don't know tracing-appender hasn't been released in over a year.

[ptdecker]

Seems related to #2701 too

[IceSentry]

Seems related to #2701 too

I'm not sure that would solve that issue. A custom extension would still use the date time stamp in the middle like debug.2023-09-13.log

[sloganking]

@IceSentry

This was done in this PR #2225 but for reasons I don't know tracing-appender hasn't been released in over a year.

It looks like there was a release 5 days ago

I have yet to check but does anyone know if the release contains #2225 and fixes this issue?

[jtojnar]

I have yet to check but does anyone know if the release contains #2225 and fixes this issue?

It does. You need to set it through the new builder API.