On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 at 18:22, Gard Spreemann <g...@nonempty.org> wrote: > > Hello. > > Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> writes: > > > On Thu, 2024-01-25 at 00:24 +0000, Wookey wrote: > > > >> People keep telling us (@ARM) how marvellous Rust is, and we keep > >> telling them that it's useless in the real world until it sorts out > >> the stable ABI/dynamic linking problem. > > > > IIRC that has been worked on for some years now, and IIRC > > the static linking wiki page has some references about this. > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/StaticLinking > > This reminded me that I'm not even sure that I fully understand what > Rust's remaining technical obstacles to achieving dynamic linking (at > least within Debian) are. I'm ignoring the potential cultural or > political issues that have been alluded to by others. My understanding – > and please do correct me! – has been that three components are missing: > > (1) A stable ABI. <...> > From Debian's perspective, is really (1) all that important given that a > stable release only has to deal with a specific version of the compiler? > Could we not live with every new version of *just* rustc in sid > introducing a transition with a rebuild of every Rust package?
A security bug in the standard library would require rebuilding and shipping the universe, so yeah I'm pretty sure it's quite fundamental.
