Re: F25 Self Contained Change: Rust Compiler

2016-07-13 Thread Stefan Nuxoll
ABI stability is entirely dependent on compiler version, AFAIK. Within the same version of rustc there should be no issues with dynamic linking, of course whenever we upgrade rustc we'd need a mass rebuild of every rust package but we'd have to do the same thing with static linking. -- devel mai

Re: F25 Self Contained Change: Rust Compiler

2016-07-13 Thread Stefan Nuxoll
Rust supports dynamic linking, would it be worth investigating that route instead of copying the proposed Go guidelines? I'm not against static linking at all costs, but it would make package maintenance (especially security updates) a lot more pleasant. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedorap

Re: F25 Self Contained Change: Rust Compiler

2016-07-13 Thread Stefan Nuxoll
Rust uses LLVM for codegen, so in theory, yes. This excludes any potential platform-specific bugs that may affect rustc, which are certainly a possibility. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

RE: Unannounced soname bump: libpsl

2016-02-04 Thread Stefan Nuxoll
dependent packages to see if there are any breaking changes would be nice too. Stefan Nuxoll > Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 11:46:34 +0100 > From: mschwe...@gmail.com > To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Subject: Re: Unannounced soname bump: libpsl > > On Thu, 4 Feb 2016 04:21:59 -05

Self Introduction: Stefan Nuxoll

2015-07-22 Thread Stefan Nuxoll
Hello -devel, My name is Stefan Nuxoll, I am a new member of the Fedora QA team and I am also looking to join the Package Collection Maintainers. I make heavy usage of Fedora in my daily life - running Fedora 22 on my Dell XPS 13 for personal use, in addition to a fleet of CentOS servers for

RE: Packaged fonts? (and regular audits?)

2015-07-14 Thread Stefan Nuxoll
that runs an application packaged in the collection? Stefan Nuxoll mailto:ste...@nuxoll.eu.org>> > To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > From: ppi...@redhat.com > Subject: Re: Packaged fonts? (and regular audits?) > Date: Tue, 14 Jul 201

RE: Packaged fonts? (and regular audits?)

2015-07-13 Thread Stefan Nuxoll
the upstream (glyphicons.org). Stefan Nuxoll mailto:ste...@nuxoll.eu.org>> > Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 19:55:53 -0700 > Subject: Packaged fonts? (and regular audits?) > From: davejohan...@gmail.com > To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > &

RE: Sponsor shortage

2015-07-11 Thread Stefan Nuxoll
r automatic blanket-approval of new > packagers. The Fedora project already has a home for unreviewed packages, and that's Copr, but it seems relatively few people know about it compared to, say, Ubuntu's PPA's. I don't want to discourage people who truly want to pu

RE: Sponsor shortage

2015-07-11 Thread Stefan Nuxoll
>> This is a vicious cycle. A lot of sponsors are burnt out on trying to >> deal with new people who don't seem to have a clue. > > Laziness, lack of activity, lack of interest, sloppy packaging, > dumping-ground/fire'n'forget mentality, there are various factors. This is unfortunately a common p