Re: [idea] ECHO rule output in colours

Mateusz Loskot via Boost-build <[email protected]> Tue, 21 Apr 2020 03:41:09 -0500 (CDT)
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Mateusz Loskot wrote
> I know close to nothing about internals of Boost.Built.
> Simply, I have scanned and read through tools/build/v2/*.jam files and
> C source code in tools/build/v2/engine
> and came up with the following idea:
> 
> Colour is specified by name given as optional argument to ECHO rule:
> 
> ECHO "hello world" : green ;
> ...
> Is this a good idea?

FYI, I've submitted experiment with working proposal for this
https://github.com/boostorg/build/pull/573





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