Re: More stability needed in our Rust packages, for IceCat 60

2018-09-24 Thread Joshua Branson
Clément Lassieur writes: > Joshua Branson writes: > >> Danny Milosavljevic writes: >> >>> Hi Mark, >>> >>> On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 23:35:17 -0400 >>> Mark H Weaver wrote: >>> >>> >>> If anyone wants a simple way to contribute to getting Rust bootstrapped, >>> please provide some cpu time to help

Re: More stability needed in our Rust packages, for IceCat 60

2018-09-24 Thread Clément Lassieur
Mark H Weaver writes: > Thanks to your hard work on our Rust packages, I was able to update our > IceCat package to a pre-release of 60.2.0. I recently pushed it to > master and Hydra is currently busy bootstrapping the chain of Rust > compilers in order to eventually build IceCat. This is

Re: More stability needed in our Rust packages, for IceCat 60

2018-09-24 Thread Clément Lassieur
Joshua Branson writes: > Danny Milosavljevic writes: > >> Hi Mark, >> >> On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 23:35:17 -0400 >> Mark H Weaver wrote: >> >> >> If anyone wants a simple way to contribute to getting Rust bootstrapped, >> please provide some cpu time to help with compiling Rust :) > > I've got a 4

Re: More stability needed in our Rust packages, for IceCat 60

2018-09-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 23:35:17 -0400 > Mark H Weaver wrote: [...] >> How would you feel about doing further Rust work on a separate branch, >> and periodically (maybe 2-4 times per month) merging the collected >> improvements into master? > > I agree

Re: More stability needed in our Rust packages, for IceCat 60

2018-09-22 Thread Mike Gerwitz
On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 23:35:17 -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Thanks to your hard work on our Rust packages, I was able to update our > IceCat package to a pre-release of 60.2.0. I recently pushed it to > master and Hydra is currently busy bootstrapping the chain of Rust > compilers in order to

Re: More stability needed in our Rust packages, for IceCat 60

2018-09-22 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Danny, Danny Milosavljevic writes: >> How would you feel about doing further Rust work on a separate branch, >> and periodically (maybe 2-4 times per month) merging the collected >> improvements into master? > > I agree actually. Rust is taking up way too much of my own build > capacity

Re: More stability needed in our Rust packages, for IceCat 60

2018-09-22 Thread Joshua Branson
Danny Milosavljevic writes: > Hi Mark, > > On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 23:35:17 -0400 > Mark H Weaver wrote: > > > If anyone wants a simple way to contribute to getting Rust bootstrapped, > please provide some cpu time to help with compiling Rust :) I've got a 4 year old AMD APU 4 core sitting at my

Re: More stability needed in our Rust packages, for IceCat 60

2018-09-22 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Pjotr, On Sat, 22 Sep 2018 09:11:42 +0200 Pjotr Prins wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 11:35:17PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > > How would you feel about doing further Rust work on a separate branch, > > and periodically (maybe 2-4 times per month) merging the collected > > improvements

Re: More stability needed in our Rust packages, for IceCat 60

2018-09-22 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Mark, On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 23:35:17 -0400 Mark H Weaver wrote: > It took my fastest laptop about 36 hours to build the chain of 5 rust > compilers required to get to the latest Rust release, and to build > IceCat. By the time I had gotten IceCat built and tested, you had > pushed a few more

Re: More stability needed in our Rust packages, for IceCat 60

2018-09-22 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 11:35:17PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > How would you feel about doing further Rust work on a separate branch, > and periodically (maybe 2-4 times per month) merging the collected > improvements into master? Or have a stable package which is a good idea anyway, especially

More stability needed in our Rust packages, for IceCat 60

2018-09-21 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Danny, dan...@scratchpost.org (Danny Milosavljevic) writes: > dannym pushed a commit to branch master > in repository guix. > > commit ec944a1de97c8a523d6e1089b8c4430424297f93 > Author: Danny Milosavljevic > Date: Fri Sep 21 15:42:56 2018 +0200 > > gnu: rust: Remove unused "ar"