On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 01:44:01PM -0800, John Soo wrote: > icecat, ungoogled-chromium, alacritty, ripgrep, exa and others depend on it > at least. I have been using the patches for a few weeks. > > What do you think?
What I'm wondering is: does the patch make a simple change that is unlikely to break a lot of dependents? Or could it be more complicated? For example, changing a piece of documentation will probably not break any dependents and, if it did, it would probably be easy to fix. On the other hand, updating the Python interpreter is usually a huge amount of work because many Python packages break and require upstream fixes. Are you able to "guesstimate" the impact of this patch in those terms? I know very little about Rust so I'm not able to.
