Groovy - should we get a ticket in for win32console & 1.9.3 support to
remind us? I obviously want to get on with other facter stuff for now
- so I wouldn't mind an understanding as to when its needed.

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Josh Cooper <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nice work Ken! For 2.7.x, puppet on windows only supports 1.8.7, so I think
> we should be good.
>
> Daniel has done a bunch of work to add 1.9.3 support in Telly, so I think
> that's something to be resolved "soon" but not immediately. If you could
> look into that, that'd be great.
>
> I've created a ticket to colorize console output for puppet on Windows:
> http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13956
>
> Josh
>
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Ken Barber <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Good news - this has been merged and released. win32console 1.3.1 with
>> the background/foreground preservation is now available via gem
>> install.
>>
>> However, there are 1.9.3 issues, seemingly in the C code I would read
>> from his comment. He is open to more patches if we want this solved -
>> let me know if you want me to tackle this now.
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Ken Barber <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > 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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