[Scummvm-devel] Windows console

[Travis Howell]

On 26/10/2010 2:51 AM, Max Horn wrote:
> yesterday, we had yet another feature request from a Windows user for not showing a DOS console window with ScummVM by default, see here<https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=418823&aid=3093800&group_id=37116>. (Before you ask for details, please read to the end.)
>
> This was (as so often in the past) quickly closed and rejected by Travis. However, I decided to reopen the issue, and have a discussion on this on a larger scale. The subject has been brought up before, but I was never satisfied with the result of the (usually very limited, brief and one-sided) discussion.

Would you stop spreading this mis-information, there has only been two 
feature requests (#1093939 in 2005 and #3093800 in 2010) which I closed 
over the years, and only two topics (2879 and 9486) on the forum, which 
I never even commented on.

I actually added optional code to allow a no console Windows build, with 
output redirected to log files, after the initial feature request 
(#1093939).

Also since ScummVM is open source, there is nothing stopping anyone 
compiling a Windows build, with the console disabled, and even providing 
that to other users.