On Tue, 2017-04-11 at 12:38 +0000, Gerald via Digitalmars-d wrote: > Looking into Rust and Cargo Debian packaging, it looks like they > are looking to go with source packages to work around the ABI > issue: > > "Because Rust doesn't have a stable shared-library ABI, and we > don't want to rebuild every Rust library package for every > architecture every time we upload a new version of rustc, we > package library crates as source code, installed into > /usr/share/cargo/registry/cratename-version/. Thus, the Debian > "binary" package for a library crate contains the same source as > the source package." > > https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/debian-rust-packaging-policy-draft/ > 4453
So why bother, no Rust people will use it, they just use Cargo and it gets stuff for them. Why bother packaging anything when people will not use it? All you need to have a working Rust system on Debian is curl and bash. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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