On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 07:28:34PM +0200, Sandra Kachelmann wrote: > Why does freebsd ports not use ansi colors? This would be so nice :-) > Eg. ECHO_MSG would be so much more visible within the compilation > soup. Gentoo uses colors too!
I have no comment on using ANSI colors, but I'd like to point something out that I think is more important than coloring build output... During compilation the most important information to users is contained in the pkg-message that is displayed. Traditionally this has shown to be a problem because it often gets pushed into the scrollback buffer. I've got a patch sitting in GNATS about this that I'd like feedback on. It collects all the pkg-message files and displays them in a pager at the end of the build. I'm hoping people will comment on it and it will eventually make it into the tree as I think it will be useful. I know portmaster has a similar behavior which I find quite useful when updating lots of ports. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/122877 -- WXS _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
