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>>>>> On Mon, 2 Sep 2013, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> I can see why someone might want to use escape codes for color |
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> displays, etc. However, imo, escape codes do not belong in log |
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> files. |
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> mgorny says many people benefit from having escape codes in log |
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> files, but I see no benefit from it, and I don't like going through |
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> build.log because of them. If you load a build.log into an editor, |
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> the escape sequences are basically trash characters that get in the |
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> way. |
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> Another consideration is if someone puts messages from a build.log |
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> directly in a bug and the messages contain escape codes, this will |
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> crash things like pybugz because bugzilla doesn't filter out the |
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> escape character. |
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> Does anyone else have an opinion on this? |
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Log files should be plain text without any embedded font attributes or |
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other formatting. |
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I'd consider any tool as broken if it outputs escape sequences when |
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the output doesn't go to a terminal. (Unless such output was |
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explicitly asked for.) |
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Ulrich |
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