On Mon, 08 Feb 2021 12:19:13 +0100 Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Hi, > > FYI the developers of dev-python/cryptography decided that Rust is going > to be mandatory for 1.5+ versions. It's unlikely that they're going to > provide LTS support or security fixes for the old versions. > > <snip> > > Honestly, I don't think it likely that Rust will gain support for these > platforms. This involves a lot of work, starting with writing a new > LLVM backend and getting it accepted (getting new code into LLVM is very > hard unless you're doing that on behalf one of the big companies). You > can imagine how much effort that involves compared to rewriting the new > code from Cryptography into C. I do know that there is ongoing work to get Rust going on m68k but it's very slow and I'm not entirely confident they'll get there. At least I don't have this package on my m68k system! -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer
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