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[MarkMLl]

In the former was, I install the compiler itself with make and don't rely on the git sources because indeed it carries around a lot of (in my case unneeded) baggage. in the second form I more or less have to use git in order to be able to craft patches (well could be done alternatively but such patches will usually not be accepted  ).

My usual MO for a new development system is to install the earliest-viable FPC binaries from the published tarball, then work forwards with published fpcbuild sources. That is obviously sensitive to disruption such as when Debian moved from 11 to 12, as well as flailing around regarding which version of FPC was required to build the current release.

MarkMLl

[PascalDragon]

Unfortunately things seem to move at such a pace that almost everyone requires trunk/main these days 

The question would be if it would be possible to make a release of the newest RTL and FCL packages without a new release of the Compiler. The Compiler featuresay not be stable yet, but the updates to FCL and RTL probably are on a much better track

This is essentially the case for 3.2.4. Many/most of the additions/changes for RTL and packages were merged there except those that rely on new compiler features or were too much manual merging would have been necessary.

Any other approach will not work as it would be too much maintenance effort on our end.