On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 5:44 PM <rsbecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wednesday, January 10, 2024 7:59 PM, Elijah Newren wrote: [...] > >Would you be okay with the following alternative: requiring that all Rust code be > >optional for now? > > > >(In other words, allow you to build with USE_RUST=0, or something like that. And > >then we have both a Rust and a C implementation of anything that is required for > >backward compatibility, while any new Rust-only stuff would not be included in > >your build.) > > To address the immediate above, I assume this means that platform maintainers will be responsible for developing non-portable implementations that duplicate Rust functionality This doesn't at all sound like what I thought I said. The whole proposal was so that folks like NonStop could continue using Git with no more work than setting USE_RUST=0 at build time. Why do you feel you'd need to duplicate any functionality?
