[Freemint-list] FreeMiNT continuous integration

[Peter Slegg]

> Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 23:14:36 -0300
> From: Philippe Noble <philippe.noble at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Freemint-list] FreeMiNT continuous integration
> To: freemint-list <freemint-list at mail.atariforge.org>
> Message-ID: <9F4B3AB2-050F-4963-9B22-2CEED04584AF at gmail.com>
>
> >
> >>> 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.
>

If the desktop (Thing) was shutdown first so that the Xaaes screen is shown
before the shutdown messages that would look a lot cleaner.

Peter