Re: [PATCH] Make test output coloring more intuitive

From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 19, 2012, 20:02 UTC
Message-ID: <505A24EC.1000203@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120917201119.GB24888@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On 09/17/2012 10:11 PM, Jeff King wrote:

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> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:50:37PM +0100, Adam Spiers wrote:
> 
>> The end result of these changes is that:
>>
>>   - red is _only_ used for things which have gone unexpectedly wrong:
>>     test failures, unexpected test passes, and failures with the
>>     framework,
>>
>>   - yellow is _only_ used for known breakages, and
>>
>>   - green is _only_ used for things which have gone to plan and
>>     require no further work to be done.
> 
> Sounds reasonable, and I think the new output looks nice. I notice that
> skipped tests are still in green. I wonder if they should be in yellow,
> too.
>

What about blue instead?   This would keep the colouring scheme more
consistent with the one used by prove:
  <http://search.cpan.org/~ovid/Test-Harness/bin/prove>
by autotest:
  <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Using-Autotest>
and by the Automake-generated test harness:
  <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Scripts_002dbased-Testsuites>

Just my 2 cents,
  Stefano