Coloured diff/log by default

[Martin (gzlist)]

On 14/05/2009, Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho at gmx.net> wrote:
> On 14/05/2009 01:33, Daniel Clemente wrote:
>> I'm wondering why, if Bazaar is meant to be usable, doesn't it default to
>> the nicest output formats.
>> [...]
>>   So: why isn't „bzr diff“ an alias to „bzr cdiff“?
>
> Because it doesn't work on Windows?

It's pretty trivial to get coloured output to the console under
Windows, just call SetConsoleTextAttribute in kernel32 from pywin32 or
ctypes. There's still little interest in making bzr on Windows work as
well as bzr on Ubuntu, it seems.

Martin