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.
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