[fpc-pascal] Separate release cycle for RTL and compiler proposal
Jonas Maebe
jonas at freepascal.org
Mon Apr 19 11:32:35 CEST 2021
On 19/04/2021 11:28, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
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> On Mon, 19 Apr 2021, Jonas Maebe via fpc-pascal wrote:
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>> On 19/04/2021 09:28, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
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>>> From what you say, both problems are related to the tool you use. Are
>>> there no other tools that can be used ?
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>> The wrapping problem is unrelated to the tool, but to the console mode
>> focus of our installation files. Such a manually formatted text file is
>> simply unsuitable for a GUI installer.
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> But if the tool didn't wordwrap, all would be OK, no ?
It's not the tool, it doesn't touch the files. It's the GUI of the
installer application, which shows a plain window that happens to be
slightly too narrow relative to our chosen line length (depending on the
kind of characters on the line, as it uses a proportional font).
Jonas
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