Provide proper colors in Windows

[svaningelgem]

Hello,

I was playing a bit around with the colored (and not so colored) output of pybuilder because this is what I'm seeing (just a small test):

The only thing I could make it work with was colorama. They have a very good Windows implementation.

How do you feel like I integrate this into pybuilder? I know it's a dependency of pybuilder, but I couldn't make the escape sequences work in python 3.7.6 at all on my windows console (even though when I type them manually in they work fine!).

Just let me know,
Steven

[arcivanov]

This is a great idea but requires a different implementation from what is proposed.

[svaningelgem]

Could you please explain what you have in mind? This is the only thing that actually worked on my Windows station.
And I don't want to integrate all the Win32 calls they use in colorama in pybuilder as that would be kinda silly.

[arcivanov]

PyBuilder can't really have dependencies, i.e. it has to be able to install without affecting anything in its environment. I'll need to look at getting colorama vendored.

[svaningelgem]

Indeed, I was also thinking along these lines (that's why I put it in a try/except statement). Then if colorama is installed in the environment it will be used, and otherwise not.

It'd be nice to have it included under windows. I'm missing the colors :-).

[arcivanov]

Let me see if I can get it for 0.12.0. I'll need to read colorama to see how it does what it does and whether there will be side effects.