On Wednesday, 29 April 2015 at 19:15, Josh Stone wrote: > On 04/27/2015 02:35 AM, Fabian Deutsch wrote: > > Hey, > > > > there is some interest (the interested people are BCC'ed) in packaging > > [Rust](http://www.rust-lang.org). > > The packaging request is tracked here: Bug 915043 - Package rust (lang) > > > > There are two main parts to get the packaging done: > > (a) Get rust to use our pre-build llvm > > (b) Package the smaller dependencies > > Also important: > (c) Bootstrap requires a binary stage0 rustc > (d) There are essentially no ABI promises. > > I think stage0 is unavoidable, but does this need fesco approval? No, but please file a tracking ticket with the FPC: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Treatment_Of_Bundled_Libraries#Bootstrapping https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ > I think the ABI means we can't really ship shared libraries, only static > rlibs. Even when the hashed filename is the same, the symbols often > change, nevermind actual compatibility. > > > Cargo is also important for truly saying we've packaged rust. But that > also has a bootstrapped binary, and comes with a whole heap of > dependencies. And since there's no real way to use installed libraries > from cargo yet[1], apart from rustc's own libraries, all these pretty > much have to be bundled. > [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/1334#issuecomment-76880322 > > > Thoughts? They need Bundled Library Exception from the FPC. Given the lack of ABI stability, I don't think it makes sense to package anything more beyond the compiler unless you wish to rebuild the (rust) world with every update of the compiler (if I understand the above correctly). Regards, Dominik -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org | MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
