fix issue365 and depend on a newer py versions which uses colorama

for coloring instead of its own ctypes hacks.

CHANGELOG

@@ -1,12 +1,15 @@
 Changes between 2.4.1 and 2.4.2
 -----------------------------------
 
+- on Windows require colorama and a newer py lib so that py.io.TerminalWriter()
+  now uses colorama instead of its own ctypes hacks. (fixes issue365)
+
 - fix "-k" matching of tests where "repr" and "attr" and other names would
   cause wrong matches because of an internal implementation quirk
   (don't ask) which is now properly implemented. fixes issue345.
 
 - avoid "IOError: Bad Filedescriptor" on pytest shutdown by not closing
-  the internal dupped stdout (fix is slightly hand-wavy but work).
+  the internal dupped stdout (fix is slightly hand-wavy but works).
 
 - avoid tmpdir fixture to create too long filenames especially
   when parametrization is used (issue354)
@@ -21,6 +24,7 @@ Changes between 2.4.1 and 2.4.2
   details of the node.keywords  pseudo-dicts.  Adapated
   docs.
 
+
 Changes between 2.4.0 and 2.4.1
 -----------------------------------
 

_pytest/__init__.py

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 #
-__version__ = '2.4.2.dev1'
+__version__ = '2.4.2'

setup.py

@@ -3,15 +3,17 @@ from setuptools import setup, Command
 
 long_description = open("README.rst").read()
 def main():
-    install_requires = ["py>=1.4.16"]
+    install_requires = ["py>=1.4.17.dev2"]
     if sys.version_info < (2,7):
         install_requires.append("argparse")
+    if sys.platform == "win32":
+        install_requires.append("colorama")
 
     setup(
         name='pytest',
         description='py.test: simple powerful testing with Python',
         long_description = long_description,
-        version='2.4.2.dev1',
+        version='2.4.2',
         url='http://pytest.org',
         license='MIT license',
         platforms=['unix', 'linux', 'osx', 'cygwin', 'win32'],