On Thu, May 5, 2016, at 08:35 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > Yeah it’s OK to do it in the order: write the package bootstrapped from > the binary blob, and then work on bootstrapping it from OCaml.
I do not think that bootstrapping Rust from OCaml is a practical goal. When you guys have talked about bootstrapping gcc from an older version, I don't think it has involved even a dozen gcc versions, let alone 319! It's a huge amount of work, to the point where it may even be easier to write a new Rust compiler from scratch. Even if it succeeded, it would take over a full week to build the current Rust release, meanwhile OCaml requires a blob anyway. I'd love to be proven wrong, but in any case I don't think it's reasonable to expect Jelle Licht to take on this project just because he assumed the mantle of rustc packager. -- Alex Griffin
