Manfred Hollstein wrote: > Hi there, > > there is a discussion going on on the Xfce developer list at > [email protected]: > > Concerns Regarding the Choice of Rust for the Xfce Wayland Compositor > > From my packager point of view, I must admit that I really hate using > Rust and Cargo within a package to be built in OBS, e.g. firefox-esr can > really be a pita when changes to our llvm/cargo/rust stack requires > changes to elements from the dependency chain, which would normally > handled by cargo downloading the stuff from Crate.io. This is verboten, > of course, so you end up either creating a new vendor.tar file or > patching checksums in the Cargo.lock file (this was necessary for > firefox-esr and MozillaThunderbird with the latest update to glibc-2.43 > recently). > > I sent my reasoning to the list, but wanted to hear about your opinion > on this topic. > Having packaged xfwl4 I admit it was a PITA to figure out the bits. However there is no alternative in sight to bring Xfce window manager + compositor to Wayland so I have no complaints. That's the way upstream wants to go then, so be it.
Cheers, m4u
