On Mon, 2018-03-19 at 00:02 +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, David Malcolm wrote:
> > This patch kit is for the website; I generated it against a local
> > git mirror of the CVS repo.
> >
> > It adds lots of examples of colorized output from GCC, which
> > I generated using ansi2html.sh, an LGPLv2 script for turning ANSI
> > color codes into HTML spans. It also emits a .css file for mapping
> > the span classes into HTML colorization.
>
> do we really need to import ansi2html.sh here? It's only supposed
> to be used once, to generate the CSS file, I think, or do you expect
> to be further use?
I used it to generate the content for changes.html, and I expect to use
it in the future when generating similar patches.
> As for the CSS, have you considered using more meaningful class names
> instead of those color codes (most of which aren't actually used in
> your patch to the website)? I guess I'm really wondering about two
> things:
>
> (a) Can we only introduce those styles we actually use?, and
>
> (b) The question on class names.
>
> (I can see that you possibly may want to keep the names as is, but
> in that case, could we prune and only keep what we use?)
I guess; I just found it easier to simply copy the latest version of
ansi2html.sh and to use it as-is.
Dave
