Hey On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 06:05:09PM +0100, chrysn wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name : cope > Version : none yet (rc1 as of 2009-12-07) > Upstream Author : Benjamin Sago <ben@cytzol.org> > * URL : http://stuff.cytzol.org/cope/ > * License : like Perl > Programming Lang: Perl > Description : colour wrapper for text level programs (e.g. ps, stat, xrandr) > > cope is a wrapper around programs that output to a terminal, to give > them colour for utility and aesthetics while still keeping them the same > at the text level. > > Adding colours on top of text makes it easy to see when something's > amiss. For utility, you can stop hunting through your terminal's scroll > buffer to locate an error when it's clearly highlighted in red, or > locating a network address hidden in dense output when they're marked in > yellow and blue (local and foreign, respectively). As for aesthetics, > even the simplest utility can be brightened up by adding a dash of > colour on top. > > cope's scripts are written in Perl, so they're as flexible (and fast) as > Perl allows. This sound interessting. However there are already similar tools in Debian. I would like to look into packaging it, and have retitled the RFP accordingly. Bests Salvatore
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