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

["Johannes Buchner (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

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Johannes Buchner commented on MNG-3507:
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A slightly different approach, yet considerably easier. 
http://twoday.tuwien.ac.at/jo/stories/320760/
Works of course on environments that support it, but assuming all unices want it, you can just fix your "Maven2 Start Up Batch" script to add this. 

Like so: (at the end of the mvn bash script distributed)

exec "$JAVACMD" \
  $MAVEN_OPTS \
  -classpath "${M2_HOME}"/boot/classworlds-*.jar \
  "-Dclassworlds.conf=${M2_HOME}/bin/m2.conf" \
  "-Dmaven.home=${M2_HOME}"  \
  ${CLASSWORLDS_LAUNCHER} $QUOTED_ARGS |
  sed -e 's/Tests run: \([^,]*\), Failures: \([^,]*\), Errors: \([^,]*\), Skipped: \([^,]*\)/[1;32mTests run: \1[0m, Failures: [1;31m\2[0m, Errors: [1;33m\3[0m, Skipped: [1;34m\4[0m/g' \
  -e 's/\(\[WARN\].*\)/[1;33m\1[0m/g' \
  -e 's/\(\[INFO\].*\)/[1;34m\1[0m/g' \
  -e 's/\(\[ERROR\].*\)/[1;31m\1[0m/g'

Or is that just the one gentoo provides? Anyhow, you provide this to your distributers. 

> 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.x
>
>         Attachments: maven-colorlogger.zip, pom.xml
>
>
> 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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