Hi Efraim,
Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> writes:
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On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 05:10:11PM -0700, Ian Eure wrote:
Hi Guixers,
I want to update the Librewolf package, but it now depends on
Rust
>= 1.76, which is newer than what's in master. I see the
>rust-team
branch has versions up to 1.77 — is there a timeline for
merging
that, or a TODO list of things that need to be done to merge
it?
I'm not sure if I can help there, but would rather direct
efforts
towards getting rust updated than patching Librewolf to build
with
older versions.
I managed to burn myself out on rust stuff a few months ago and
I'm
finally coming back to the rust-team branch. There are still
hundreds
of patches sent for the branch which I had hoped to catch-up on,
but I'm
fairly certain that the branch is in a good state for merging
even now.
Currently it has rust-1.77.1. There is a newer 1.77.2
available, and
the newest version is 1.79. After merging the current branch I
hope to
be able to move the version of rust on the rust-team branch to
whatever
the latest version is.
I’m very sorry to hear that you’re feeling burnt out.
Would it be reasonable to merge the newer Rust versions, without
changing the default from 1.75? That would unblock things needing
them, without the risk of breaking packages which haven’t been
updated.
This might not work for other packages, but Guix seems to keep
nearly every version of Rust around for bootstrapping the new
ones, so I think this would work.
Thanks,
— Ian
