Cake: Debug/Diagnostic color is far too dark

Created on 8 Mar 2021  路  2Comments  路  Source: cake-build/cake

While investigating issues with https://github.com/cake-build/cake/pull/3240, I temporarily enabled Debug/Diagnostic logging for the integration tests, during which the log rendering is far too dark and becomes unreadable in some environments.

GitHub Actions run 2052071902:
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Azure Pipelines build 17082:
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Here's another screenshot of a normal GitHub Actions run showing the color spectrum for different LogLevel/Verbosity:
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And the same for a normal Azure Pipelines build:
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Finally, I've seen similar problems when building local in WSL.

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Agreed. I think we need custom console color palettes for different CI systems.

TeamCity has the opposite problem (not dark enough) having a white background, so parts of the log is not easily readable.

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Agreed. I think we need custom console color palettes for different CI systems.

TeamCity has the opposite problem (not dark enough) having a white background, so parts of the log is not easily readable.

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One more for good measure... reading the log output with Visual Studio Code, in dark mode, with the ANSI Colors extension:

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