From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 31 21:45:20 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D013F1065670 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:45:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tingox@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f167.google.com (mail-fx0-f167.google.com [209.85.220.167]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 619AF8FC12 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:45:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tingox@gmail.com) Received: by fxm11 with SMTP id 11so2540620fxm.43 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:45:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=JrH5Nbv4Ig9FSnB98LzFGNbJSzpCbV6B6LHVEmlKjno=; b=T0kAvCkEBKPxIygRsFfmc5QXC2Pj0o3Iii8kPhDNES/23lq9hZbKVgeSLPT0LLv7Ha zaSIfuTnxoTJbfVyOcryCb8MLSl/4EATDU5WcRkeU/xoQeGi2L9r8nA0PPW7H9bMWshu 0KxZU2Ish3mSAXmbxeJ1nCcnB/6SsTY3YsGLA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=NayL0RhT0m/VWBhaFu+aypEpYFLJII7lPhZHrWsgmzpLS7NKH7ZcYFaS3omCCHV1xX pPXiK+NqE6402ez5X39g6bqF8AK597COK/NM3twMI5Cu75viZl20ECD1ofke9If5jZLP Bea6XpP2jy9/s0b15/uxbd8KqY+Uhs6wkpXxE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.111.71 with SMTP id r7mr5521489fap.59.1238535919005; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:45:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <91b92520903311028k52be00edr49f830e555e3a8dc@mail.gmail.com> References: <91b92520903311028k52be00edr49f830e555e3a8dc@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:45:18 +0200 Message-ID: From: Torfinn Ingolfsen To: FreeBSD Ports ML Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: ansi colors in ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:45:21 -0000 Hi, On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Sandra Kachelmann wrote: > Why does freebsd ports not use ansi colors? This would be so nice :-) Perhaps because it is unneccessary? IMHO, I prefer the ports infrastructure to be functional, rather than "nice looking" any day. > Eg. ECHO_MSG would be so much more visible within the compilation > soup. Gentoo uses colors too! Well, if we start using colors as indicators instead of text, how about blind people then? Are we just going to break things for people just because they have bad eyesight? I sure hope not. Those who need to color their output can use tools to do that, like colortail[1]. References: 1) http://www.freshports.org/misc/colortail/ -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen