I installed Maven (the latest version, 3.8.3) via Homebrew (brew install maven) on a Mac running the latest macOS Monterey (12.0.1, Apple Silicon).
When I run any mvn command in the terminal, the output is plain white with no colors and no bold text. I tried the same command (also version 3.8.3) on my older MacBook (Monterey 12.0.1 as well), with the exact same Terminal settings and here, the colors are there just as expected.
When explicitly setting -Dstyle.color=always after mvn, the colors also work as expected, but I don’t want to set this all the time.
Other things I’ve tried:
- setting the environment variable
MAVEN_OPTSto-Dstyle.color=always– no success - running IntelliJ’s bundled
mvn(version 3.6.3) – colors work as expected
Are there any settings that I might have missed? Or is there another way to explicitly tell Maven to always set style.color=always?
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Answer
The reason is simple: this is only included in Jansi 2.4.0 which is not in a Maven release yet. If you ask politely, I can include this in Maven 3.8.4.
I have addressed this here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-7331