Re: More stability needed in our Rust packages, for IceCat 60

[Danny Milosavljevic]

Hi Pjotr,

On Sat, 22 Sep 2018 09:11:42 +0200
Pjotr Prins <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 11:35:17PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> > How would you feel about doing further Rust work on a separate branch,
> > and periodically (maybe 2-4 times per month) merging the collected
> > improvements into master?  
> 
> Or have a stable package which is a good idea anyway, especially with
> boostrapping compilers. 

Hmm... what do you mean by this?

The entire bootstrap chain build is not succeeding yet - so the packages
are not stable and cannot be stable yet.

Bootstrapping rust is not done yet.   It might look like it is, but if you
look closely you'll see that the rust-1.23 package cheats by using a binary
blob compiler.

I'm still trying to find the magical combination of settings that will work
for all Rust versions - otherwise, maintenance overhead would explode.

Right now, mrustc and rust 1.19.0 are reasonably finished and will probably
not change again in the next month.

All the other rusts, good luck.

In any case, further work will continue in wip-rust :)

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