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

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Mon Apr 19 11:36:55 CEST 2021



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

> On 19/04/2021 11:28, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, 19 Apr 2021, Jonas Maebe via fpc-pascal wrote:
>> 
>>> On 19/04/2021 09:28, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> From what you say, both problems are related to the tool you use. Are
>>>> there no other tools that can be used ?
>>>
>>> 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.
>> 
>> 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).

So it's the MacOS installer window that does the wrapping ?
being used to Inno Setup I automatically assumed the tool also does the
GUI...

That explains it. Thanks.

Michael.


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