Re: Linux distro readiness for Rust in Gecko

Henri Sivonen wrote: On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 1:51 AM, Petr Cerny wrote: Saying "Linux is good, we can actually do things there, that are more complicated elsewhere, but you are hindering our development" sound a bit unfair. There is no contradiction between Rust working the bes

Re: Linux distro readiness for Rust in Gecko

ore fundamental changes in functionality the releases shortly after ESR release - e.g. say ESR+1 to ESR+3, while introducing implementation details (rewriting C/C++ into Rust) shortly before or with ESR release (to make ESR maintenance easier). And announce those early (I don't think this can be overstated). Thanks Kind regards Petr -- Petr Cerny Mozilla/OpenSSH maintainer for SUSE Linux ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Linux distro readiness for Rust in Gecko

7 or newer then their developers can stoll go this route to package it. Theoretically it only needs to be done once, right? Question is, whether we'll be fine with some 7 iterations like you suggest or we'd need the ~300 steps Henri mentioned. Petr -- Petr Cerny Mozilla/Op

Re: Linux distro readiness for Rust in Gecko

Henri Sivonen wrote: > Sure, once you are on similar level of stability to GCC, it is not such > a big problem. Note that GCC 5.3.0 (to my best knowledge) can be > compiled by GCC-3.4 (10 years difference). Once rustc is capable of > being compiled by a one or two years older version of itsel

Re: Linux distro readiness for Rust in Gecko

ble rustc codebase - stable in the sense that a >> recompile would only be necessary on the order of magnitude of ESR >> releases (note: I'm writing this without any knowledge about >> current rustc compile requirements). This would allow distributions >> to perform the long

Re: Linux distro readiness for Rust in Gecko

e order of magnitude of ESR releases (note: I'm writing this without any knowledge about current rustc compile requirements). This would allow distributions to perform the long iteration chain once and then update rustc only from time to time. Thanks Kind regards Petr -- Petr Cerny Mozilla/OpenSSH maintainer for SUSE Linux ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Linux distro readiness for Rust in Gecko

ation, after reading up a bit on the topic and some conversations with people who have deeper insight, many of my reservations were gone). Thanks Kind regards Petr -- Petr Cerny Mozilla/OpenSSH maintainer for SUSE Linux ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform