RFC: gfortran on Windows - handling of no console / pausing before end-of-program console destruction

[Tim Zeisloft]

> A message box which gives the error messages from the console or just an
> "automated pause" to not close the console would certainly help those
> users -
>> and probably not harm anyone else.
> I disagree with that. Although I see the value in a more "user friendly"
> behavior on Windows w.r.t. console handling, one can argue whether it should
> be handled by the compiler runtime or by the user program. And, more
> importantly, the runtime "user friendly interface" might interfere with at
> least two types of usage:
>
>    1. power users, who have existing setups (including scripting, automation,
> etc.)
>    2. large apps that have developped their own interface for this purpose
>
> Anything that is done in gfortran should be, in my opinion, at least
> user-unselectable.

It sounds like the consensus is that both these features could be useful 
for mingw targets provided they be made selectable. I am willing to 
implement this, though it might take a little while.
Would switches named --error-messagebox/--no-error-messagebox and 
--pause-on-exit/--no-pause-on-exit suffice?

Tim Z
Marlette Software