From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 31 22:29:05 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C77121065673 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:29:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars@larseighner.com) Received: from mail.team1internet.com (mail.team1internet.com [216.110.13.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5C8D8FC20 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:29:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars@larseighner.com) Received: by mail.team1internet.com (Postfix, from userid 12346) id 5E8D516B6AE; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:06:35 -0500 (CDT) Received: from larseighner.com (unknown [216.110.13.74]) by mail.team1internet.com (Postfix) with SMTP id DDFB516B614; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:06:33 -0500 (CDT) Received: by larseighner.com (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 lars@larseighner.com; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:04:36 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:04:35 -0500 (CDT) From: Lars Eighner X-X-Sender: lars@debranded.6dollardialup.com To: Sandra Kachelmann In-Reply-To: <91b92520903311028k52be00edr49f830e555e3a8dc@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20090331170426.R79579@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> References: <91b92520903311028k52be00edr49f830e555e3a8dc@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Sanitizer: Anomy and SpamAssassin mail filter - see http://www.6dollardialup.com/support/spaminfo.html Cc: ports@freebsd.org 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 22:29:06 -0000 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