On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 10:29:21AM -0400, Augie Fackler wrote: > I think Debian (at least) has a mechanism to build packages with a newer > rustc than they actually distribute. > I don't think we do. :)
E.g. we had to add a rustc-mozilla package to Debian stable when moving from firefox ESR 78 to 91. Julien > (Note that both your messages got marked as spam for me!) > > > On Apr 27, 2022, at 5:56 AM, Raphaël Gomès <raphael.go...@octobus.net> > > wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > (Sorry in advance if this mail is a duplicate, we've had trouble with our > > mailing lists in the past few days) > > > > Mercurial has had Rust code for a few years now. Parts of it used as native > > extensions to the Python code and others as standalone executables for > > speed. Some distros have packaged the Rust versions in the past and we > > expect more to do so in the future. > > > > The current policy for the minimum Rust version in Mercurial is to follow > > that of Debian Stable. The idea behind the policy is to have a > > relatively... stable version that should enable most users and distros to > > use our Rust code without relying on an external toolchain like Rustup, and > > ease the integration with downstream crates like Ripgrep (only as an > > example, no effort has been made yet). > > > > Some Mercurial contributors feel like this policy needs to change because > > it prevents us from upgrading some of our dependencies most of all, but > > also because we miss out on some niceties in the language (I am not aware > > of any major changes like async/await was before). > > > > TLDR: does anyone care if we change our minimum Rust version policy to a > > faster moving target ? Likely Debian Testing, but that's just one idea. > > > > Thanks, > > Raphaël > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mercurial-packaging mailing list > > Mercurial-packaging@mercurial-scm.org > > https://www.mercurial-scm.org/mailman/listinfo/mercurial-packaging > > _______________________________________________ > Mercurial-packaging mailing list > Mercurial-packaging@mercurial-scm.org > https://www.mercurial-scm.org/mailman/listinfo/mercurial-packaging _______________________________________________ Mercurial-packaging mailing list Mercurial-packaging@mercurial-scm.org https://www.mercurial-scm.org/mailman/listinfo/mercurial-packaging
