David Craven <da...@craven.ch> skribis: >> Can we reasonably expect to bootstrap it from source, >> using a series of previous Rust versions, or using an >> alternative implementation? > > Currently as Jelle said no. But there is [0] that may be a > viable option in the future. > > [0] https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc
That would be great. >> Having crates available as normal Guix packages is the >> best option for Guix users: uniform interface, the ability >> to use ‘guix environment’ and all the tools, transactional >> upgrade and rollback, etc. > > I think with a cargo plugin that interacts with the guix daemon, The Guix daemon is very low-level, is has no idea what a package is, so it’d be the wrong place for such things IMO. What we did for other languages should work here: (1) provide an importer, and (2) provide a build system (we have ‘guix import cpan’ and ‘perl-build-system’, and so on.) Ludo’.
