[Freemint-list] FreeMiNT continuous integration

[Philippe Noble]

> 
>>> Something which is not new, but is really hugly, is Mint printing
>>> the shutdown sequence directly on the AES background. If it can't be
>>> avoided, at least can't we wipe the screen to white.
>> 
>> I think this could be solved via TosWin2. But I agree, it's not very
>> helpful, also with higher debug levels screen shouldn't be abused.
> 
> This is normal stdout output. Where should it go if not to the screen? 
> Remember, XaAES will be shut down early in the shutdown process, so 
> there is no AES console to catch this output.
> 
> It would look a lot cleaner (and also easier to read!) if XaAES could 
> clear the screen upon exit. However, that would clear any output between 
> the console app shutdown and the shutdown of XaAES itself.
> 
> However, there is no doubt that there's a lot of superfluous output from 
> MiNT during shutdown, especially with low debug levels. This could be 
> reduced to a minimum. In normal cases I only need to know that shutdown 
> was successful.

I know that these message may be useful for development, but from a user point of view they are not.
An option to not print these messages on screen at shut down will be good. A kind of "silent" mode will be perfect.
Suprisingly, under Aranym theses shutdown message never appears.