Hi On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 13:01:58 -0700 Eric Anholt <e...@anholt.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 12:08 AM Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmerm...@suse.de> > wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > On Fri, 02 Oct 2020 08:04:43 -0700 "Dylan Baker" <dy...@pnwbakers.com> > > wrote: > > > > > I have serious concerns about cargo and crate usage. Cargo is basically > > > npm for rust, and shares all of the bad design decisions of npm, > > > including linking multiple versions of the same library together and > > > ballooning dependency lists that are fetched intrigued from the > > > internet. This is both a security problem and directly in conflict with > > > meson's design off one and only one version of a project. And while > > > rust prevents certain kinds of bugs, it doesn't prevent design bugs or > > > malicious code. Add a meson developer the rust community has been > > > incredibly hard to work with and basically hostile to every request > > > we've made "cargo is hour you build rust", is essentially the answer > > > we've gotten from them at every turn. And if you're not going to use > > > cargo, is rust really a win? The standard library is rather minimal > > > "because just pull in 1000 crates". The distro people can correct me if > > > I'm wrong, but when librsvg went to rust it was a nightmare, several > > > distros went a long time without u > > pdates because of cargo. > > > > I can't say much about meson, but using Rust has broken the binaries of > > several packages on i586 for us; which consequently affects Gnome and KDE. > > [1][2] Rust uses SSE2 instructions on platforms that don't have them. > > There's a proposed workaround, but it's not yet clear if that's feasible > > in practice. > > > > Best regards > > Thomas > > > > [1] https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1162283 > > [2] https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1077870 > > From the first bug: > > >Not entirely sure what to do about this. i586 is unsupported by Rust (tier > >2) and as such the package is built for i686 > > This really sounds like your distro is just building with the wrong > rust target for packages targeting an earlier processor. Every other language/compiler combination appears to get this right. And even i686 does not require SSE2. As I said before, there might be a workaround. Best regards Thomas Thomas _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
