On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 08:44:58AM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 11:25:26PM +0100, Aoife Moloney via devel-announce > wrote: > > Hare is a systems programming language designed to be simple, stable, > > and robust. Hare uses a static type system, manual memory management, > > and a minimal runtime. It is well-suited to writing operating systems, > > system tools, compilers, networking software, and other low-level, > > high performance tasks. > > It's cool to see new languages and tools being developed. > > The Change page text contains a few surprising statements though: > > > Leaving `binutils` and GCC aside, bootstrapping a Hare tool chain > > only takes a few minutes. > I guess this doesn't really apply to Fedora users, because everyti > will packaged. Or are people expected to bootstrap something > regularly? > > > Unlike other language tool chains, Hare modules are meant to be the > > responsibility of system package managers like DNF. Packaging Hare > > modules and applications should result in little friction. > Can you expand a bit on this? Is the workflow for updates of software > written in Hare going to be somehow different than e.g. for C > applications? What does "responsibility of system package managers" > mean?
One more question, after reading the proposed Packaging Guidelines changes: do hare apps, linked statically or not, properly embed package notes? Zbyszek -- _______________________________________________ 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
