Re: Linux distro readiness for Rust in Gecko

2016-03-24 Thread aturon
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 infrastruc

Re: Linux distro readiness for Rust in Gecko

2016-03-24 Thread aturon
On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 4:25:35 PM UTC-7, atu...@mozilla.com wrote: > The Rust compiler has had over 300 snapshots, so re-bootstrapping from ocaml > would take at least 900 compiles (each one requires three stages of internal > builds); by my estimation, this would take at least a month of

Re: Linux distro readiness for Rust in Gecko

2016-03-22 Thread aturon
On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 4:06:18 PM UTC-7, Petr Cerny wrote: > i.stake...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Thursday, March 17, 2016 at 4:31:46 PM UTC-4, Henri Sivonen > >> If distro policy bans ongoing cross-compliation, I guess the > >> distro would need to replicate the Rust project's compiler > >> c

Re: Linux distro readiness for Rust in Gecko

2016-03-18 Thread aturon
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 1:59 AM, wrote: > > In particular, as > > noted in this thread, you can't bootstrap off of either the current > > version of Rust or the previous. This is actually a problem that could > > be fixed in about one release cycle. > > Nice! I didn't realize it's that close t