On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 12:08 AM Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmerm...@suse.de> wrote: > > Hi > > On Fri, 02 Oct 2020 08:04:43 -0700 "Dylan Baker" <dy...@pnwbakers.com> wrote: > > > I have serious concerns about cargo and crate usage. Cargo is basically npm > > for rust, and shares all of the bad design decisions of npm, including > > linking multiple versions of the same library together and ballooning > > dependency lists that are fetched intrigued from the internet. This is both > > a security problem and directly in conflict with meson's design off one and > > only one version of a project. And while rust prevents certain kinds of > > bugs, it doesn't prevent design bugs or malicious code. Add a meson > > developer the rust community has been incredibly hard to work with and > > basically hostile to every request we've made "cargo is hour you build > > rust", is essentially the answer we've gotten from them at every turn. And > > if you're not going to use cargo, is rust really a win? The standard > > library is rather minimal "because just pull in 1000 crates". The distro > > people can correct me if I'm wrong, but when librsvg went to rust it was a > > nightmare, several distros went a long time without u > pdates because of cargo. > > I can't say much about meson, but using Rust has broken the binaries of > several packages on i586 for us; which consequently affects Gnome and KDE. > [1][2] Rust uses SSE2 instructions on platforms that don't have them. There's > a proposed workaround, but it's not yet clear if that's feasible in practice. > > Best regards > Thomas > > [1] https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1162283 > [2] https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1077870
>From the first bug: >Not entirely sure what to do about this. i586 is unsupported by Rust (tier 2) >and as such the package is built for i686 This really sounds like your distro is just building with the wrong rust target for packages targeting an earlier processor. _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
