On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, 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!
In fact, some ports do use ansi color for some things. It pretty much depends upon the source. Many applications are written to compile in a variety of environments, including those in which compiling from an ansi-capable terminal is not guaranteed. I think porters should do as little to the source as possible, and that maintaining other applications would be a better use of their time than forcing pretty-pretty on a compile that should run only once. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 _______________________________________________ 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"
