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

["David Bernhard (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

     [ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3507?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

David Bernhard updated MNG-3507:
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    Attachment: maven-colorlogger.zip

To install, make the project and put the jar in {{$M2_HOME/lib}}.

Then, patch the plexus file in the maven uberjar:

In {{lib/}}, execute
{{jar xf maven-2.0.9-uber.jar org/codehaus/plexus/plexus-bootstrap.xml}}

In the unzipped file, edit the entry
{{org.codehaus.plexus.logging.console.ConsoleLoggerManager}}
to
{{ch.elca.el4j.maven.logging.FormattedLoggerManager}}

add it to the uberjar with (again in lib/)
{{jar uf maven-2.0.9-uber.jar org/codehaus/plexus/plexus-bootstrap.xml}}

and delete the org/ directory.

Ansi color is output only when you call maven with the option *{{-Dplexus.logger.type=ansi}}*.



> 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
>         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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