Re: Some serious issues with the new -O option

[Stefano Lattarini]

On 04/30/2013 01:22 PM, Tim Murphy wrote:
> I know this isn't going to go down all that well, but I really think the
> output should be annotated in such a way that colourisation could be
> applied to the log file after a build has already finished.
>
While this might (underline "might" ;-) be an interesting feature, it
is orthogonal to the issue under question -- that is, the need to retain
the ability to automatically determine whether the output is going to a
tty or a "log file" (that is, any file that is not a tty).

> e..g you load a makefile into VIM - it can colourise it. Or a bit of C
> source code. Why not the log of a build you did yesteday? It's still very
> nice to be able to distinguish things by colour later on.
>
And notice that, currently, such a post-run colorization is easy to obtain,
if you are only interested in having it working 99% of the time: just color
a leading "PASS:" string in green, a leading "FAIL:" in red, e leading
"SKIP:" in blue, etc.

Regards,
  Stefano