Since this would be adding a component that affects the build of a very core build component to many MacPorts packages, perhaps a bit more care should be taken with where it will be stored.
Maybe it makes sense for this new bootstrap compiler to live in a repository owned by the MacPorts Github org? On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 6:22 PM Joshua Root <j...@macports.org> wrote: > On 2022-4-15 02:16 , mcalh...@macports.org wrote: > > As many of you know, the standard Rust compiler is self-hosting. > > The upstream bootstrap compiler only works (unmodified) on 64-bit 10.9+. > > > > There is an attempt to build a bootstrap compiler that runs on older > > systems [1]. > > One stumbling block is where to build and store the bootstrap compilers. > > I am afraid I know little about this. > > Github packages, JFrog, other? > > Does anyone have any suggestions? > > > > Thanks, > > Marcus > > > > 1) https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/14277 > > It's not really different to hosting any other distfiles; pretty much > anywhere you can make them available is fine. If you have a GitHub repo > where you keep the work that has gone into this, that's an easy place to > keep the files - just create a tag and make a release using that tag, > and you can attach whatever files you like to it. > > - Josh >
