How can you color NAnt output?

Question

We are looking at using NAnt as a deployment tool for our internal (usually web based) applications.

One of our (many) current solutions uses colored output on the commandline to indicate if there was a problem with the installation (green and red).

Is there an easy way to change the output to be a particular color when NAnt is executing.

If there is no easy way, I'd be interested in hearing good ways.

Answer 1

Have you looked at the NAnt Tool: ColorNAnt (direct link)?

Answer 2

I haven't tried this yet, but the following link looks promising:

Colorized-NAnt-Console-Output

Answer 3

We ended up making a custom task called colorecho which works the same as the echo task but let us color the output it makes.