> Do you plan to create a cleaner full-bootstrap process? > By "cleaner" I mean dividing stage-0 to more [sub-]stages, > which would be well-defined and documented in terms of > the set of language features it implements. Currently these > sub-stages are defined by a team member's mood to instruct > the build-bots to make a snapshot. This kind of bootstrap > seems to be a black-box.
As I understand, there is no plan to do this. "Bootstrap" you are talking about is purely theoretical, and I don't think anyone actually performed it. In practice, Rust is bootstrapped from the downloaded binary. > I understand you do not spend resource on such tasks before 1.0, > but do you think this is a legitimate|sensible request at all? > Would it be worth the work? Personally, I don't see any value in doing this work. C compilers are bootstrapped from C compiler binaries. Analogously, the Rust compiler is bootstrapped from the Rust compiler binary. Trying to bootstrap from rustboot would be akin to trying to bootstrap GCC from last1120c (the oldest C compiler with surviving source code). An interesting feat of computer archaeology, but not really useful for anything. According to http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/primevalC.html someone actually managed to run last1120c, which is quite cool, I think. _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list Rust-dev@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
