Re: [rfc] Colorized output for GNU make?

[David Boyce]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Sebastian Pipping
<address@hidden> wrote:
>  - Add parameter --color[=(yes|no)] to enable/disable color
>   from the command line.

Previously, I suggested XML output piped to a colorizing filter and
you indicated a lack of interest in going that way. Which is no
problem; it's your contribution, and there are definitely downsides to
a pipeline approach. But I continue to think that XML output a la
ecmake would enable a lot of useful post-processing, so the only
feedback I have on this patch is a suggestion that instead of
--color=(yes|no) you use something like --output-format=(color|plain)
where of course "plain" is the default. All your work to do
table-driven formatting via a standard output function could easily be
applied to XML generation and it could be supported at the UI level
without adding another flag by allowing --output-format=xml.

-David Boyce