Colourised error output #13
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gcc tends to output in colour by default these days, but only if it's running in a terminal. It's actually quite useful when trying to make sense a long pile of compiler spew. Of course, muddle confounds this by capturing the output.
Plan A: Update the
Makefile.muddleof every last package to set-fdiagnostics-color=always. Hahahahahahaha.Plan B: Teach muddle to colourise the output itself, along similar lines to what gcc and friends do.
This is Plan B. I've been using it for a couple of weeks now and it's pretty solid so far. It's intended to be a safe drop-in: if you don't have the python colorama package installed, muddle continues to operate just how it used to, and you get a note telling you what you have to do to install colorama.
As a bonus feature, you can set an environment variable which will chuck HTML spans around the output instead, ready for use in a CI system with suitable CSS.