Color your terminal's output

[Jens Mueller]

Trass3r wrote:
> Am 07.10.2011, 14:51 Uhr, schrieb Jens Mueller <jens.k.mueller at gmx.de>:
> 
> >Trass3r wrote:
> >>>You could use ANSI codes on posix to avoid a dependency on curses:
> >>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#Colors
> >>>But I think using curses is ok. ncurses is MIT licensed and can be
> >>>used as a dynamic library, so I don't think there are license problems.
> >>>
> >>>However, I'd recommend to load ncurses dynamically with dlopen/dlsym
> >>>and fallback to simple text output if the ncurses library cannot be
> >>>loaded.
> >>
> >>+1
> >>There shouldn't be a hard dependency on curses.
> >
> >I had the impression that even though there is this standard how do I
> >know that I have a standard-compliant terminal. Can I just assume this?
> >I started using curses because I had the impression there may be
> >non-standard terminals. But this seems to be minor issue. I will change
> >this if people are happy with Windows and ISO/IEC 6429 compliant
> >terminals only.
> >Thanks.
> 
> As Johannes already said, it's perfectly possible to implement both
> approaches and choose at runtime.

I see. You mean using curses if available and falling back to ISO/IEC
6429. So you think that supporting ISO/IEC 6429 terminals is too
limited, aren't you?

Jens