So I think I've now met the authors requirements for merging. The ETA
for next release of win32console with this patch is this weekend, and
this should include a new public gem as well.

https://github.com/luislavena/win32console/pull/12

I'm assuming this is our way of moving forward with color, and will
adapt a methodology for working with that gem for windows color in
Facter. Thanks everyone for your help so far.

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Ken Barber <[email protected]> wrote:
> Good news, looks like the author is willing to take a patch if I fix tests.
>
> On Apr 10, 2012 11:40 AM, "Ken Barber" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Bah - forgot the screenshots. Left is powershell, right is command
>> prompt. As you can see, it preserves the background blue now.
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Ken Barber <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Nice :-). Turns out someone had already done this in a clone. Here is
>> > my branch that includes those patches:
>> >
>> > https://github.com/kbarber/win32console/tree/fix_background_color
>> >
>> > I just rebased, and added better documentation around building from
>> > source. If someone has the time, it would be good to confirm this
>> > works for Puppet.
>> >
>> > I've raised a pull request here:
>> >
>> > https://github.com/luislavena/win32console/pull/12
>> >
>> > ... petitioning him to take the patch and do another release, lets see
>> > how we go. If he is reluctant we could possibly ask if we could take
>> > on maintaining the gem as well. Not sure what people want to do here -
>> > but if this gem is important to us then we should do the right thing
>> > somehow.
>> >
>> > ken.
>> >
>> > On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Ken Barber <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>> I think we should go with win32console, file a ticket about the
>> >>> background
>> >>> issue, and either submit a pull request to Luis or fork our own
>> >>> version and
>> >>> patch it there. If this sounds reasonable, I'll file the ticket.
>> >>>
>> >>> And Ken, it sounds like you already know what the fix would be. Is
>> >>> this
>> >>> something you can work on?
>> >>
>> >> Happy to work on the patch Josh.
>> >>
>> >> ken.

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