[Zope-dev] [Checkins] SVN: zc.sourcefactory/trunk/buildout.cfg color by default

[Marius Gedminas]

On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 10:56:15AM -0500, Benji York wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:22 AM, Michael Howitz <mh at gocept.com> wrote:
> > Log message for revision 93766:
> >  color by default
> 
> This setting apparently causes problems for people who use Emacs, so
> for zope. and zc. packages at least, we don't use --auto-color.

Two comments:

  * on Unix it is possible to detect whether your terminal supports
    color: curses.tigetnum('colors') returns 8 in gnome-terminal and -1
    in emacs's dumb terminal). zope.testing.testrunner already uses
    curses.tigetnum() to detect the terminal width with graceful
    fallbacks on Win32 and other crippled platforms that don't have
    'curses'.  Making --auto-color do the Right Thing should be easy.
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/zope.testing/+bug/306476

  * it's a rather strong personal preference whether people want
    colors or not; enabling them by default is not a good decision,
    having a global config file in $HOME for that setting would be a
    good choice.
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/zope.testing/+bug/306478

Marius Gedminas
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