On Mon, 19 Apr 2021, Karoly Balogh via fpc-pascal wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, 19 Apr 2021, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote:
Am 18.04.2021 um 23:29 schrieb Zamrony P. Juhara via fpc-pascal:
I would like to propose to separate RTL release from compiler release
so that RTL bug fixes and features can be released with shorter release
cycle. Is that possible?
No, the RTL and the compiler are tightly coupled.
What might be possible are further packages like the FCL and
interfaceing units, but the core RTL itself definitely not.
I think the need comes from the fact that the release cycle for the
compiler is horribly long, which I tend to agree with. But I think this
comes from the fact that the release for Tier 1 platforms is still mostly
prepared manually. So if we want to improve on that, we need to improve
the automated packaging of relase-ready binaries at least for Windows,
Linux and MacOS, so Tier 1 systems. Linux is a no brainer, but I've no
clue about what would automating the packaging the Windows or macOS
installers involve.
Windows is also a no-brainer, it's perfectly scriptable. We're using inno
setup.
But MacOS is a problem.
Michael.
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