tty: expose hasColor and getColorDepth directly

[thunder-coding]

TODOs:-

• Expose hasColor
• Expose getColorDepth
• Document new methods
  - [x] Deprecate WriteStream.hasColor and WriteStream.getColorDepth
  - [x] Add tests for same
  - [ ] Replace every instance of WriteStream.hasColor and WriteStream.getColorPath with new methods in tty
  - [ ] Document new deprecated methods of tty and add documentation for new methods

About deprecating tty.WriteStream.hasColor and tty.WriteStream.getColorDepth, this requires a lot of changes to be done which is not so backward compactible.

process.stdout and process.stderr have hasColor() and getColorDepth() methods which are forwarded from tty.WriteStream, this means that deprecating tty.WriteStream.hasColor() will also mean deprecation of process.stdout.hasColor, similar for process.stdout and getColorDepth)

So I am dropping the idea of deprecating these two methods for now. I would really appreciate some feedback from the team regarding this.

Fixes #40236

[thunder-coding]

I feel that a good amount of people agree with the idea of deprecating process.{stdout,stderr}.hasColor() and ...getColorDepth() (3 upvotes), if the nodejs team has no problems with this, I will go for it. I can't decide what to do until someone from the team gives their say on this

[DerekNonGeneric]

@thunder-coding, thanks for the PR. I definitely see value in exposing this to help terminal color library authors write smaller modules and would like to see this happen, but this PR still seems to be missing quite a few things.

Maybe if you added some documentation to this PR (and your commit message adhered to our commit message guidelines this might be able to get some traction, but until then, this is unlikely to get approval.

With regards to deprecating things, the option of documentation-deprecating something so as to not break pre-existing uses is an option that would be available if necessary. Let me know if you get stuck or need help with anything if you intend to continue pursuing this.

[thunder-coding]

Let me know if you get stuck or need help with anything if you intend to continue pursuing this.

I have rebased this against master and even fixed the commit message. About documentation-deprecating tty.WriteStream.hasColors(), tty.WriteStream.getColorDepth() and process..... stuff, I need some help regarding on how the deprecations should be documented since this seems to be a huge change and also affects process.stdout and process.stderr

Note: I only need help regarding how to write the deprecation thing in doc/api/deprecations.md, I can manage to write in doc/api/tty.md by seeing previous deprecations

[UltiRequiem]

Hey, I'm interested in seeing progress on this PR. Any way to help?

[thunder-coding]

Hey, I'm interested in seeing progress on this PR. Any way to help?

Thanks for showing interest in my PR. I would like to continue and apply the requested changes and get this merged. But I've got quite busy nowadays due to my exams, and I won't be able to get back to this for atleast the next 2 months!

So, if anyone would like to take over the opportunity to create a new PR which implements it properly is free to do so!