On 07/14/2016 05:15 PM, Simo Sorce wrote: > Until the Rust ecosystem becomes more stable, it is better to upgrade > it regularly than have a stale tool nobody can really use. > There are even crates that work only with nightlies for now, so trying > to stay on par is necessary to make it useful. Also, although I am big > fan of dynamic linking we should probably keep Rust program built > statically for now, until Rust gets a stable ABI, or the breakages will > defeat any advantage we may get.
Thanks, that's pretty much how I feel too. We can't do much for those that want nightly (though I might start a copr), but for everyone else it's probably best to keep shipping the newest Rust possible. We agree on static compilation too. Even once there is an ABI, there's a lot to think about how generics are instantiated -- although at that point I guess it's not too different from C++ template considerations. I've also been experimenting with how crates could be packaged, and while I still think source-based devel rpms are the answer, the tooling doesn't seem to be there yet. I think we'll need directory registries from here[1], and until then only we should only ship rustc and cargo. [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/2857 (That won't prevent Firefox packagers from using Rust, if they want to, since their code is currently vendored into the source tarball anyway.) -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
