Le 17/03/2016 à 11:59, Henri Sivonen a écrit : > Do we have a plan being executed to make sure that when Gecko > components written in Rust ship on the release channel in > Mozilla-produced builds the also ship in the Firefox packages of > various Linux distributions? [...] > > Can we get Debian stable, Ubuntu and Fedora to ship a rustc package as > a build dependency for Firefox every six weeks like the Firefox > package itself in order for Firefox not to miss the 6-week train when > Rust code ships in Mozilla-built Firefox and for Firefox to be able to > co-evolve with rustc instead of getting stuck to an old rustc due to > distro LTS cycles? (I'm assuming that it won't be a big deal to get > Gentoo to pick up the most recent rustc when the use case shows up.) One way which would make the life of Linux distro way easier would be to maintain the Firefox rust code in a way it could compile using older rust compiler.
For example, imagine that the next Debian stable or Ubuntu LTS ships using Rust 2.0, we would make sure that the new rust code still compile with Rust 2.0 (limiting our capability to use new language trick). Just like we do with C++... Now, with my Debian/Ubuntu hat, maintaining rust backports to be able to build new versions of Firefox on stable/LTS releases is not going to be easy: rust needs recent versions of LLVM, LLVM is a complex beast (with regular bump the minimal version of gcc, etc). And here, I am just mentioning i386 & amd64... (Debian/ubuntu don't have any rust builds for arm CPU). Sylvestre _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
