On Thursday, March 24, 2016 at 10:21:12 AM UTC-7, Chris Peterson wrote:
> On 3/24/16 10:13 AM, atu...@mozilla.com wrote:
> > The Rust core team met yesterday and developed a complete plan for Rust to 
> > be build with the previous stable compiler as snapshot. We will be landing 
> > the infrastructure needed to do this shortly.
> >
> > In terms of release timing, it will take some time for this change to fully 
> > propagate. Our most recent Rust snapshot happened after the 1.8 beta, 
> > leading to the following picture:
> >
> > - Rust 1.8 -- already in beta; hits stable on Apr 14th
> > - Ad hoc snapshot
> > - Rust 1.9 -- builds from ad hoc snapshot
> > - Rust 1.10 -- builds from Rust 1.9 stable
> >
> > The Rust 1.10 stable release will happen about 15 weeks from now, and under 
> > this plan will be the first release to bootstrap this way.
> 
> Aaron, so going forward, Rust version N should always be buildable by 
> version N-1 (starting with N = 1.10)?

Correct.
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