[FEATURE REQUEST] CMake and Colors

[Michael Biebl]

On 3/24/06, Allen Winter <winter at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi CMake Devs,
>
> Perhaps this should go direct to your project mailing list, but since I know you are here....
>
> There has been quite a number of folks asking for the colorful output that unsermake used to have.
> The colors were much, much less than what colorgcc[1] provides.
>
> I think this can be done easily in the build.make files... where you print "@echo Building ...." instead
> you'd print  "Building" with the appropriate escape sequences for a color (green).   Same kind of thing
> for "Generating" (blue) "Linking" (yellow), and "Installing" (cyan).  Oh, and in bold too.
>
> I'm sure the unsermake devs on this list can help provide the right escape sequences.
> But you can find them in kdenonbeta/unsermake/utilities.py.
>
> I hope you will consider implementing this request in your next cmake release.

FWIW, I'm all for it.

Liked the output of unsermake.

Michael