On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 04:30:27PM +0100, Sebastien Marie wrote: Hello Sebastien,
> So I would like to open the discussion on the "proper" way to manage crates > inside OpenBSD ports tree. First of all, thanks for all your hard work in getting Rust up and running so well on OpenBSD! I must admit, I have also wondered how we could go about dealing with crates and OpenBSD's ports. There are a couple of things which you mention, but which may be worth emphasising for those less familiar with Rust. First, Cargo is the only language package manager I've used which I respect. It enables sane, repeatable builds, and handles a number of hard cases well. Second -- probably because Cargo is so good -- Rust has quickly grown a culture of having lots of small libraries, often far smaller than (say) C or Python equivalents. The sheer number of crates that a typical Rust program uses, the frequency with which they're updated, and the fact that different programs use different versions, means that I think we would quickly overwhelm OpenBSD human packagers. Even though we could probably largely automate the creation of such ports, the generation and checking would quickly become tiresome. So I tend to think that your first option (embedding the Crate list) is the most practical way to get started. Maybe when the Rust ecosystem's expansion has slowed down (which, as it becomes more mature, it inevitably will) and/or there's a larger number of people able and willing to maintain Rust packages on OpenBSD we could change to the second option. Laurie -- Personal http://tratt.net/laurie/ Software Development Team http://soft-dev.org/ https://github.com/ltratt http://twitter.com/laurencetratt
