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Hervé Boutemy commented on MNG-3507:
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terminal detection to disable color when not a terminal is done in Jansi
but there are issues in Jansi on Windows with MingGW/GitBash/Cygwin: see
MNG-6282 MNG-6218 https://github.com/fusesource/jansi/issues/94
there is a workaround coded in Maven 3.5.2 MNG-6205 which fully disables color
when stdout is not a terminal, ignoring stderr (notice: I'm not sure Maven
outputs anything on stderr, so perhaps the workaround does not really have any
limitation in our Maven case...)
the issue in Jansi was tracked down to jansi-native
https://github.com/fusesource/jansi-native/issues/11
I got recently Jansi committership given the hard work I did for 1 year on
improving Jansi (given the issues we met when integrating in Maven), but I
don't have any Windows compiler or C on Windows knowledge to provide a fix:
looking for a contributor who has knowledge to do the improvement...
> ANSI color logging for improved output visibility
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> Key: MNG-3507
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-3507
> Project: Maven
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Logging
> Reporter: Rahul Thakur
> Assignee: Hervé Boutemy
> Fix For: 3.5.0-alpha-1, 3.5.0
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> Attachments: maven-colorlogger.zip,
> plexus-colorized-ConsoleLogger.patch, pom.xml
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> Is it possible for Maven to use ANSI color logging? IMO it would make Maven
> logs much easier to read and increase the visibility of items that the user
> want to see at any given point in time.
> I think Andrew Williams did some work under Plexus sandbox to enable color
> logging. There also a color logger available in Ant.
> http://ant.apache.org/manual/listeners.html#AnsiColorLogger
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