Re: Mercurial's minimum Rust version

2022-04-29 Thread Mathias De Maré
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 2:53 PM Raphaël Gomès 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

Re: Mercurial's minimum Rust version

2022-04-28 Thread Augie Fackler
Oh, interesting. Maybe we could get away with "whatever MSRV Firefox uses" as a baseline? On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 10:38 AM Julien Cristau wrote: > 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

Re: Mercurial's minimum Rust version

2022-04-28 Thread Julien Cristau
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

Re: Mercurial's minimum Rust version

2022-04-28 Thread Augie Fackler
I think Debian (at least) has a mechanism to build packages with a newer rustc than they actually distribute. (Note that both your messages got marked as spam for me!) > On Apr 27, 2022, at 5:56 AM, Raphaël Gomès wrote: > > Hi all, > > (Sorry in advance if this mail is a duplicate, we've had

Mercurial's minimum Rust version

2022-04-27 Thread Raphaël Gomès
Hi all, 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