On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Fred Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Benji York <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> This setting apparently causes problems for people who use Emacs, so
>> for zope. and zc. packages at least, we don't use --auto-color.
>
> I've been using this under Emacs for a while, and haven't experienced
> any tool-related problems with colorization.
>
> I *have* generally objected to adding settings like this in
> buildout.cfg: some of us (including myself!) think it makes the output
> harder to read.

Good point (I really like colorized output, but typeing -c has become
reflex at this point, so it doesn't bother me).

> The only "right" way to deal with this seems to be to either:
>
> - require users wanting color to ask for it from the command line, or
>
> - add configuration support, so this can be set per-user, rather than
> polluting buildout.cfg for everyone.

+1
-- 
Benji York
Senior Software Engineer
Zope Corporation
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