On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 12:06:54PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > It might be possible to have the Guix build farm build the rust branch. > > I'm not sure how much load it would add to the build farm, though. > > Maybe someone else on the list would know more? > > Building Rust seems to take a lot of time, so I’m not sure we could > afford building daily Rust snapshots on our build farm.
If we were to build nightlies for a number of compilers/interpreters it would be a really good 'marketing' move. Guix makes this feasible and is a contrast with the typical scripting hell. This would be particularly interesting for a number of upcoming languages: Rust, Julia, Elixir, D... Developers are a great target audience because they can write packages in turn. Maybe we should dedicate a machine for this. Or get one of the CI websites to sponsor it using cloud services. I am happy to provide a build VM to build nightly D compilers gdc and ldc. That way we could start farming out 'specials'. Something to discuss in Brussels? Pj.
