On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 4:02 PM, Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 09:33:41AM +0200, [email protected] wrote: > > > I agree. Since rust and cargo are only used for FF (what about > > > Thunderbird or Seamonkey?) then we should only consider updating > > > rust/cargo when a new FF version is released. > > > > (sadly) rust/cargo seem to be required also for librsvg: devel version > > 2.41.0 requires them and I guess they will be mandatory from stable > > 2.42.x on... > > > > https://github.com/GNOME/librsvg/blob/master/NEWS > > > > > > ciao > > -gabriele > > gabiele, > > thanks for that not-exactly-welcome news. I suppose that in time > other packages will also use it. I've now created #9168 for rustc > and cargo, with a status of hold. > > I just hope that the claims for added safety in rust turn out to be > true. > > Just as a heads up, I'm seeing more and more GNOME projects move to rust... they had a hackfest in Mexico last week according to Christian Hergert (@hergertme on twitter). He's one of the core GTK+ developers, and runs the GNOME Builder IDE singlehandedly which is based directly off of rust.
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