Re: colorful tests

2007-11-10 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Bob, * Bob Proulx wrote on Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 12:36:12AM CET: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > - with TERM=vt100, on my GNU/Linux system there are still colors > > generated by tput, so I did not use that TERM setting, > > That is discouraging. The vt100 does not support color and tput > s

Re: colorful tests

2007-11-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > - with TERM=vt100, on my GNU/Linux system there are still colors > generated by tput, so I did not use that TERM setting, That is discouraging. The vt100 does not support color and tput should not produce escape sequences for it. I believe that would indicate a bug in

Re: colorful tests

2007-11-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 10:03:47PM CET: > > 2007-11-05 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Implement colorized test output. > > * automake.in (handle_tests): Set

Re: colorful tests

2007-11-05 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Bob, Thanks for your and Benoit's feedback! * Bob Proulx wrote on Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 12:47:02AM CET: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > Does anybody know how to test that colorful output actually happens? > > Since the colorful output of check.mk now uses 'tput' and 'tput' uses > TERM, it shou

Re: colorful tests

2007-11-05 Thread Benoit Sigoure
On Nov 5, 2007, at 5:01 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Benoit Sigoure wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: For example when capturing output with 'script' all of those escape sequences get in the way. If you do this, it will DWYM unless you have a broken implementation of `test -t' (which should be reported so w

Re: colorful tests

2007-11-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Benoit Sigoure wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > >For example when capturing output with 'script' all of those > >escape sequences get in the way. > > If you do this, it will DWYM unless you have a broken implementation > of `test -t' (which should be reported so we can mention it in the > "limitat

Re: colorful tests

2007-11-05 Thread Benoit Sigoure
On Nov 5, 2007, at 1:13 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: Benoit SIGOURE wrote: Now I think that the no-color-tests could be useful for those out there that are allergic to fancy colors and stuff, so I think it'll be worth implementing it (which is easy). I am not quite alergic to it but put me in the bl

Re: colorful tests

2007-11-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Benoit SIGOURE wrote: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >Of course the step of making color-tests the default could also be > >done some time later. (Maybe including also a no-color-tests for > >die-hards.) I would like a way to force color off. But I can't think of a good control lever for doing it.

Re: colorful tests

2007-11-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Please CC me since I don't normally read automake-patches. Thanks. Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Does anybody know how to test that colorful output actually happens? Since the colorful output of check.mk now uses 'tput' and 'tput' uses TERM, it should be sufficient to force TERM and then test the out

Re: colorful tests

2007-11-04 Thread Benoit SIGOURE
On Nov 4, 2007, at 7:17 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hello Benoit, * Benoit SIGOURE wrote on Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 06:50:08PM CET: On Nov 4, 2007, at 6:41 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: I took the various bits of code from the parallel tests check.mk from Akim and tried to mangle that suitable f

Re: colorful tests

2007-11-04 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Benoit, * Benoit SIGOURE wrote on Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 06:50:08PM CET: > On Nov 4, 2007, at 6:41 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> >> I took the various bits of code from the parallel tests check.mk from >> Akim and tried to mangle that suitable for inclusion in Automake. >> This is what I ended

Re: colorful tests

2007-11-04 Thread Benoit SIGOURE
On Nov 4, 2007, at 6:41 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hello colorful world, I took the various bits of code from the parallel tests check.mk from Akim and tried to mangle that suitable for inclusion in Automake. This is what I ended up with. (More topics to follow.) What do you think about it?