[Bug 55723] regsvr32 no longer provides output on success/failure

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55723

--- Comment #5 from Eric Pouech  ---
(In reply to Zeb Figura from comment #4)
> This may be true, but on the other hand, Windows regsvr32 provides graphical
> output, which we do not.
>
> Currently our regsvr32 pretends to write output to the terminal but is in
> fact just silent. I would argue that we should either change regsvr32 to a
> console program, or stop pretending that we're outputting anything to the
> console.

that would open a new console each time an application spawns regsvr32 (we
could fix the CreateProcess(regsvr32...) calls in Wine to not create a console)
but we can't expect all the other applications to do so