> > Making your colours terminal agnostic requires inclusion of curses or 
> > something like that. Compare i18n or l12n. And you are entering bike-shed 
> > territorium.
> 
> Virtually all terminals support ANSI color escape codes. Programs like ls and 
> git
> don't bother to link with a terminal library. And the CLI in tinc 1.1 is
> already linked to curses. But yes, bike-shedding might be a problem.

What's wrong with bike shedding? We live in gigabyte century not
kilobyte.
Besides even over gprs (a few kb a second) full color ncurses works fine
(see f-irc, multitail, httping - my toy projects using either ncurses or
ansi). You can still make it an option maybe even a compilation option.


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