On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 12:04:59AM +0200, Leo Prikler wrote: > Soon: There are 15 competing build systems
Very true ;) > Guix as a build system, with or without GWL, is fine as long as it's > just fun and games, but it comes with the serious downside of not being > compatible with any other distro out there. Perhaps that works out for Maybe. I can still support cargo - just don't want to deal with it... A Debian target would not be too hard. > What we need in order to make packages written in Rust less of a PITA > is more widespread usage of generic build systems like make or meson. > We won't get there with cargo cult programming. On a somewhat related > note, I find it amusing, that Rust folk dread the usage of Rust without > cargo, as if the Rust standard library on its own was somehow worthless > or something :P Meson may be good enough (indeed). I have one project that uses meson effectively and it is not bad. But I had to look up a lot of things - it is sometimes counterintuitive and hardly simple. Sure beats cmake and autotools. Still, it could be simpler. Pj.
