> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 1:59 AM, <bander...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > In particular, as > > noted in this thread, you can't bootstrap off of either the current > > version of Rust or the previous. This is actually a problem that could > > be fixed in about one release cycle. > > Nice! I didn't realize it's that close to happening. I think it would > be good to make "rustc stable N compiles with rustc stable N or rustc > stable N-1" happen, then. It would probably make life easier not just > for distro packaging but for non-x86/x86_64 ports as well, since those > could self-host in a predictable way.
Agreed on all counts. We'll get this done ASAP. On the broader distro policy questions: as Brian mentioned, we've been steadily making progress working with distros to get Rust shipped *at all*, as well as working through support for Rust applications. The need to update a package like Firefox with a newer version of rustc more rapidly than the distro itself hasn't been part of those discussions to date. This thread has helped clarify the constraints -- thanks for kicking it off. We'll make a renewed push working with our distro contacts with these goals in mind in Q2. Cheers, Aaron _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
