Re: Flock CFP: Language SIGs discussion

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On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 5:25 PM Demi Marie Obenour
<demiobenour@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 7/5/23 02:22, Jens-Ulrik Petersen wrote:
> > I have submitted a Flock proposal to have a common discussion session for
> > (modern) Language SIGs. I think for this to be successful we need
> > representatives from various Language SIGs to be there (Rust, Haskell,
> > OCaml, Golang and of course Python and older ecosystems like Perl, R, TeX
> > come to mind immediately - surely there are more). Language packaging
> > experts are also welcome of course independently or affiliated to one or
> > more language SIGs. Of course I also hope there will be broad attendance by
> > interested contributors.
> >
> > The idea is to talk about common and distinct problems faced, both to learn
> > from each other and to come up with practical ideas and plans for generally
> > easing Fedora's mass packaging efforts.
> >
> > If you plan to be at Flock and are willing and able to represent your
> > Language SIG at this Flock session do please reply or reach out to me. I
> > think each SIG could do a brief presentation there to kick off the dialogue.
> >
> > Thanks, Jens
>
> This could be made much easier if Fedora’s build system supported automated
> cascading rebuilds of transitive dependencies.  Haskell and OCaml are currently
> linked statically in Fedora, but could be linked dynamically if cascading
> rebuilds were supported.  Rust is likely, IMO, gain improved support for dynamic
> linking in the future.
>
> I am _not_ going to start a debate as to whether requiring cascading rebuilds
> is a good idea.  That requirement comes from Haskell, OCaml, and Rust, not me,
> and so any complaints should be directed there.  This subthread is strictly
> about changes to Fedora’s build system that make it easier to implement
> cascading rebuilds.

I'm not sure how often I have to repeat myself, but dynamic linking
for Rust crates is NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. Even if the build system
supported doing this, the average number of updates for Rust crates I
push every week would keep the build system busy for a month, not even
mentioning the fact that it would blow up package sizes exponentially
(yes, *exponentially*, by about a factor of 2^n, with the number n of
optional features they support). Please stop mentioning Rust in this
context, it is misleading.

Fabio
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