On 03/17/2016 01:47 PM, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: [...]
One way which would make the life of Linux distro way easier would be to maintain the Firefox rust code in a way it could compile using older rust compiler. For example, imagine that the next Debian stable or Ubuntu LTS ships using Rust 2.0, we would make sure that the new rust code still compile with Rust 2.0 (limiting our capability to use new language trick). Just like we do with C++... Now, with my Debian/Ubuntu hat, maintaining rust backports to be able to build new versions of Firefox on stable/LTS releases is not going to be easy: rust needs recent versions of LLVM, LLVM is a complex beast (with regular bump the minimal version of gcc, etc). And here, I am just mentioning i386 & amd64... (Debian/ubuntu don't have any rust builds for arm CPU).
Well, what about other arches? ppc(64), s390, ai64...?
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