On Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 1:18 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbys...@in.waw.pl> wrote: > > Yes. But actually I think Rust is the optimal choice here. Writing > this in Python would be possibly slightly nicer, but we don't want > to pull the interpreter and packages into the buildroot. Python > also has the problem (challenge?) that it needs to be bootstrapped > once per year. The less packages are involved in the bootstrap, the > easier it is. And if the brp was written in Python, we'd need to > deal with that, and it would probably increase the number of builds > which are done without the cleanup. Having this as an indepedent > binary avoids some of the issues with bootstrap.
I think Rust *would* be a good choice here ... BUT add-determinism uses pyo3 to link to CPython, so it pulls in python3-libs anyway. So you get the downsides of pulling in Python without the upsides of using Rust ... Fabio -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
