Op 2021-04-19 om 07:52 schreef Karoly Balogh via fpc-pascal:
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.
Doc upload also is a bottleneck.
It is not the work to those tiers that keeps up, but unforeseen things
happening while doing that, because nobody tests them inbetween
releases, and things pop up last minute.
If you have automated systems, but nobody pays attention to them till
just before release time, you get the same problem.
That doesn't mean I'm against automation. The problem is just more than
that, which is why I hope to moving to a bi-annual release scheme would
be best. It would reduce the need for this or that fix to get in last
minute, and somewhat grease the wheels of releasing.
Major releases can be a pain, minor releases should be reasonably
effortless.
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