On Fri, 15 Sept 2023 at 10:54, Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: > My summary, is that I'd personally be in favour of opening the door > to Rust code as a mandatory pre-requisite for QEMU, at the very least > for system emulators. Not because this particular series is compelling, > but because I think Rust could be more beneficial to QEMU over the long > term than we expect. In terms of consuming it though, if we're going > to replace existing QEMU functionality, then I think we need to bundle > the Rust code and natively integrate it into the build system, as we > have recently started doing with our python deps, to detach ourselves > from the limits of what distros ship.
I'm not against this, but there is a fair amount of work here in figuring out how exactly to integrate Rust components into the build system, questions like what our minimum required rust version would be, liasing with downstream distros to check that what we're proposing isn't a nightmare for them to package, etc. -- PMM
