Currently we have a common utility method for running commands
in a child process. This method pipes all stdout and stderr, but sets
the `stdin` to `inherited`. This seemed to work as expected in terms of
allowing interactive commands being executed, but it messes with the
TTY in Windows (and potentially other platforms) so that colors and
prompts no longer work properly. See attached screenshot.
We fix this by not inheriting the stdin by default; but exposing
a dedicated method for interactive commands. This results in more
readable and obvious code too, so it's worth making this change
regardless of the TTY issues.
PR Close#41948
Introduces a new command for `ng-dev release`, so that the NPM
dist tag can be set for all configured NPM packages. This command
can be useful in case a manual tag needs to be set, but it is
primarily used by the release tooling when a new stable version
is cut, and when the previous patch branch needs to be set as LTS
version through a `v{major}-lts` dist tag.
It is necessary to have this as a command so that the release tool
can execute it for old branches where other packages might have been
configured. This is similar to the separate `ng-dev build` command
that we created.
Note that we also added logic for spawning a process conveniently
with different "console output" modes. This will be useful for
other command invocations in the release tool and it's generally
better than directly using native `child_process` as that one doesn't
log to the dev-infra debug log file.
PR Close#38656
Paul Gschwendtner
Joey Perrott
George Kalpakas