keep colors of executed commands in parallel mode

[lypwig]

Parallel mode disables colors of executed commands, which can be inconvenient.

I understand that the task runner also use colors to display the current task being executed, but I think it should be possible to have both, eventually via an option.

[nat-n]

Hi @lypwig,

This is not intentional. It's most likely a consequence of whatever tool poe is calling in your task realizing that it's output is being captured by another process and therefore disabling its own output coloring. So if whatever tool you're calling has an option to force ansi/colored output then that should still work.

That said, there's probably something poe should do to handle this better, I'll keep this issue open as a reminder to look into it.

[lypwig]

First of all I want to add that when I use poe without task parallelization, I get the colored output for all and my tasks as expected.

So if whatever tool you're calling has an option to force ansi/colored output then that should still work.

Thank you. I was able to set colored output for ty via --color always.

I also run uv sync --dry-run and uv run python manage.py check, and both are executed with colored output even without option for that.

In the case of Ruff: no colored output, it can be forced via an environment variable, not via a cli option. I tried to define my task as FORCE_COLOR=1 uv run ruff check and export FORCE_COLOR=1 && uv run ruff check, but none of them work. Is there a workaround here?

In the case of Behave: no colored output, it can be forced viaa cli option: uv run python manage.py behave --simple --force-color, but the color is still black. It might be an issue with Behave in this case.