On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 8:02 AM, Jan Synacek <jsynacek@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 9:03 AM, Igor Gnatenko > <ignatenkobrain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hello everybody, >> >> we are establishing new SIG for Rust[0]. Feel free to join us on IRC >> (#fedora-rust) and/or Mailing List (rust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx). >> >> Help with improving our wiki page is very welcomed ;) >> >> [0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Rust > > Hi, > > I have a couple of questions. The description on the SIG page says: > > "This includes packaging Rust libraries and applications, setting and > improving standards for packaging them as RPM's and maintaining Rust > packages for Fedora." > > Isn't packaging Rust libraries waste of time? Cargo does a great job > taking care of the libraries / dependencies. > Cargo requires internet access unless a local repository of the dependencies can be found. We cannot build Rust applications that depend on crates in Fedora infrastructure without them packaged first. In this regard, we will be mimicking the strategy employed by the golang packaging, and crates will be -devel only, including only source code. > How is packaging Rust applications different from packaging any > compiled (to ELF) applications? Apart from having the correct runtime, > of course. > Well, for one, we have to deal with Cargo. Most of what we're doing is ensuring Cargo plays nice with the restrictions we have. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
