Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:46:42 -0400 From: Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org> To: Sandra Kachelmann <s.kachelmann@googlemail.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Collecting pkg-message files [was: ansi colors in ports] Message-ID: <20090331184642.GD43840@atarininja.org> In-Reply-To: <91b92520903311028k52be00edr49f830e555e3a8dc@mail.gmail.com> References: <91b92520903311028k52be00edr49f830e555e3a8dc@mail.gmail.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20090331184642.GD43840>