[fpc-pascal] Separate release cycle for RTL and compiler proposal

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 19 Apr 2021, Jonas Maebe via fpc-pascal wrote:

> On 19/04/2021 07:59, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
>> 
>> But MacOS is a problem.
>
> macOS is also perfectly scriptable, I just have to finish automating it.

I didn't mean to imply that it is not scriptable.

But it's a problem for the reasons you mention below.
At least the first reason was known to me and one of the reasons why I
described mac as problematic.

> The main remaining problem is our hard-wrapped readme and whatsnew files
> that look terrible in its installer (because it also performs wrapping
> and it uses a proportional font, so many hard-wrapped lines get wrapped
> again). So at least the changed/new parts need manual unwrapping every time.
>
> For Mac OS X/PowerPC there is the additional issue that the tool to
> create installer packages that work on Mac OS X 10.4 no longer works
> under macOS 10.14, so they have to be created on an older Mac OS X
> version (I don't know when it broke exactly).

Manual work and requiring an old OS are a problem if you want to automate.

>From what you say, both problems are related to the tool you use. 
Are there no other tools that can be used ?

I don't know whether Mac OS X/PowerPC still qualifies as a Tier-1 platform; 
But I doubt it. So maybe that can be dropped for these "intermediate" releases.

Michael.