Re: automake: tap-driver.sh: cleanup and revival.

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 27 Oct 2017, Warren Young wrote:
> This thread is about color.  My Link MC3+ doesn’t even *have* color, 
> but it will do bold, underline, and blink.  Why should Autoconf care 
> what my terminal can do?  The operating system has a database 
> mapping what my terminal can do to a common API.  Let the library 
> handle it.

I should point out that the "operating system" does not necessarily 
have what you describe.

Autoconf and Automake support many environments, including some 
which lack a terminal database.

Indeed, Autoconf and Automake may be configuring/building software 
which adds support for a terminal database.

This does not mean that it can't be supported on systems which do have 
terminal information, but it makes the task somewhat more challenging.

Bob
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