On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 11:41:47AM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote: >... > but also a larger question of "should we do > this?" or "how might we place limits on where this can be used?" >...
I won't attend, but I do have a topic that should be covered: Firefox always depends on recent Rust, which forces distributions to update Rust in stable releases. As an example: Ubuntu LTS releases upgrade to a new Rust version every 1-2 months. Ubuntu 16.04 started with Rust 1.7.0 and is now at Rust 1.41.0. It would not sound good to me if security updates of distribution kernels might additionally end up using a different version of the Rust compiler - the toolchain for the kernel should be stable. Would Rust usage in the kernel require distributions to ship a "Rust for Firefox" and a "Rust for the kernel"? > Thanks, > ~Nick Desaulniers cu Adrian
