On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Cameron Kaiser <ckai...@floodgap.com>
wrote:

> This would essentially mandate, then, that Gecko can only be built on
> platforms with a Rust toolchain. That may be desirable, but it would
> probably bust some of the obscure Tier-3 platforms and it would definitely
> bust TenFourFox (we can't even get clang to be happy on 10.4 currently).
> Not that we haven't been on borrowed time for awhile; I just point it out
> for the record. <https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform>
>

FWIW, we'd also like to make Gecko require a C++11-compliant standard
library, and that will also have roughly the same effect as requiring
Rust.  I don't have exact dates on that happening, but I'd really like to
see it happen in the first half of 2016.

-Nathan
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