Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Icecat 60

[Clément Lassieur]

Pinging (one month left), and adding Mark.

Clément Lassieur <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
> As this blog article[1] says, Firefox 52's end of life will happen on
> August 28, 2018.  That is, in 47 days.  I imagine that by that time
> Icecat 60 will be released, but it seems that we are pretty far from
> being able to package it, because of the Rust packages that are needed.
> There might be other technical difficulties that I'm not aware of,
> though.
>
> Is there any plan in this regard?  Maybe, as a first step, we should
> list the required dependencies so that people can pick them up?  My
> understanding of that article[2] is that the top level dependencies are
> listed in Cargo.toml[3].
>
> What is the current state of the Rust build system (cargo-build-system)?
> Is there anything blocking that would prevent its use?  I'm asking
> because I see very few packages in gnu/packages/rust.scm.
>
> Thank you,
> Clément
>
> [1]: 
> https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2018/01/11/announcing-esr60-policy-engine/
> [2]: 
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Building_Firefox_with_Rust_code
> [3]: 
> https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/library/rust/shared/Cargo.toml