Fabio Valentini wrote: > Do you have suggestions for improving this situation? I think we're > pretty close to doing the best we can with packaging Rust projects, > given the current limitations of the language (i.e. the support for > building "true shared Rust libraries" is still very limited and > unstable; but that might improve in the future). Building true shared libraries is pretty much a prerequisite for any sane form of packaging. > Additionally, the way the Sequoia GPG backend for RPM is implemented, > it's actually shipped as a standard shared library with a C ABI and > accompanying C headers (which are binary compatible with the existing > in-house GPG backend code in RPM). No Rust code will be statically > linked into /usr/bin/rpm. That at least makes sense. (Though I assume that that C-style .so still internally depends on a whole bunch of Rust crates that are statically compiled and linked into the .so, does it not?) > I'm sorry to disappoint you, but Rust is here to stay, whether you > like it or not. > For example, it's been voted the "most loved" and "most wanted" > language for a few years in a row in Stack Overflow's surveys: > https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#technology-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted And according to the same statistics, the majority of developers runs Windows, yet hopefully you do not propose that Fedora ship Windows… We need to ship what we can reasonably ship, not what the (relative) majority of developers in the world (most of whom do not even run Fedora) happens to prefer. Kevin Kofler _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
