[libvirt] [PATCH 0/2] Don't colorize output senselessly

Peter Krempa pkrempa at redhat.com
Thu Sep 19 05:39:09 UTC 2019


On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 16:18:23 +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> On 9/18/19 9:58 AM, Peter Krempa wrote:
> > Basing the colors on the message itself is in many cases wrong. Look
> > into the patches for examples.
> > 
> > Peter Krempa (2):
> >   Revert "virt-result.m4: Colourize summary printings"
> >   Revert "configure: Colorize output"
> > 
> >  m4/virt-colours.m4 | 62 ----------------------------------------------
> >  m4/virt-result.m4  | 21 +++-------------
> >  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 80 deletions(-)
> >  delete mode 100644 m4/virt-colours.m4
> > 
> 
> Looks like this made people more angry than I anticipated. Feel free to
> revert the patches.

I want to emphasise that I don't have problem with using colored text to
simplify spotting problems. One example is the colored output of our
unit test suite where the usage of colors allows me to find a broken
test quickly.

> 
> ACK
> 
> Michal
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