[jira] Commented: (MNG-3507) ANSI Color logging for improved output visibility.

["Sean Flanigan (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

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Sean Flanigan commented on MNG-3507:
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The maven-colorlogger project references a chain of el4j parent poms which aren't in the zip.  If anyone else wants to try it, I found the immediate parent here: https://el4j.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/el4j/trunk/el4j/maven/pom.xml
In the end, I just removed the parent reference, told the maven-compiler-plugin to compile for 1.5, and it all worked.

An even easier way to try it is to download the el4j binaries from https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=147215&package_id=162180&release_id=638658 and use the modified Maven 2.0.9 therein.

BTW, if anyone was using an awk hack like this one while waiting for colour logging in Maven - http://blog.bazoud.com/post/2008/10/20/Maven-in-colour-/-Maven-en-couleur -  watch out for interactive goals which mess up awk's line buffering...

> ANSI Color logging for improved output visibility.
> --------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MNG-3507
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3507
>             Project: Maven 2
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Rahul Thakur
>             Fix For: 3.0
>
>         Attachments: maven-colorlogger.zip
>
>
> Is it possible for Maven to use ANSI color logging? IMO it would make Maven logs much easier to read and increase the visibility of items that the user want to see at any given point in time. 
> I think Andrew Williams did some work under Plexus sandbox to enable color logging. There also a color logger available in Ant. 
> http://ant.apache.org/manual/listeners.html#AnsiColorLogger

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