Well, this wouldn't be the first time that we are not as clear
communicating our intents as we thought or should. Sorry about that.
Thanks for getting in touch with the OS/2 maintainer. We definitely need
to spread the word asap. I hope that Rust can be ported to OS/2 and
other Tier-3 platforms bu
On 12/14/15 7:36 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote:
On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 6:58 PM, Cameron Kaiser
wrote:
That said, I kind of object to the fact that no one brought this up until
I noticed it in passing, and the work to get Rust up on a tier-3 platform
-- a language that currently has no relevance to t
On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 6:58 PM, Cameron Kaiser
wrote:
> Replying to a couple messages at once.
>
> On 12/14/15 2:19 PM, Mike Hoye wrote:
>
>> On 2015-12-14 4:06 PM, Justin Dolske wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/14/15 2:51 AM, Ted Mielczarek wrote:
>>>
>>> [...]Obviously this isn't something we like to see,
Replying to a couple messages at once.
On 12/14/15 2:19 PM, Mike Hoye wrote:
On 2015-12-14 4:06 PM, Justin Dolske wrote:
On 12/14/15 2:51 AM, Ted Mielczarek wrote:
[...]Obviously this isn't something we like to see, but
we shouldn't let the support of non-Tier 1 platforms guide our decision
m
On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Cameron Kaiser
wrote:
> This would essentially mandate, then, that Gecko can only be built on
> platforms with a Rust toolchain. That may be desirable, but it would
> probably bust some of the obscure Tier-3 platforms and it would definitely
> bust TenFourFox (we
On 2015-12-14 4:06 PM, Justin Dolske wrote:
On 12/14/15 2:51 AM, Ted Mielczarek wrote:
[...]Obviously this isn't something we like to see, but
we shouldn't let the support of non-Tier 1 platforms guide our decision
making to that extent. Enabling Rust components in Gecko is important
work, and
On 12/14/15 2:51 AM, Ted Mielczarek wrote:
[...]Obviously this isn't something we like to see, but
we shouldn't let the support of non-Tier 1 platforms guide our decision
making to that extent. Enabling Rust components in Gecko is important
work, and outweighs the value of supporting Firefox on
On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Nicholas Nethercote
wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>>
>> This would essentially mandate, then, that Gecko can only be built on
>> platforms with a Rust toolchain. That may be desirable, but it would
>> probably bust some of the ob
On Sun, Dec 13, 2015, at 09:27 PM, Nicholas Nethercote wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Bobby Holley
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I've been wondering about this. There's a big difference between (a)
> >> permitting Rust components (while still allowing fallback C++
> >> equivalents) and (b) mand
On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Nicholas Nethercote wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Bobby Holley
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I've been wondering about this. There's a big difference between (a)
> >> permitting Rust components (while still allowing fallback C++
> >> equivalents) and (b) mandat
On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Bobby Holley wrote:
>>
>> I've been wondering about this. There's a big difference between (a)
>> permitting Rust components (while still allowing fallback C++
>> equivalents) and (b) mandating Rust components.
>
> I don't know why we would allow there to be a lon
> On the other hand, in that same thread, metajack said, "The current plan is
> to have Rust (in the form of rust-url replacing nsUrlParser) riding the
> trains later this quarter."
And indeed, Rust is now riding the trains with the moov parser. It's
not required for the build yet, but Nightly (an
On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 2:28 PM, Bobby Holley wrote:
> I don't know why we would allow there to be a long gap between (a) and (b).
> Maintaining/supporting two sets of the same code is costly. So if we get
> the rust code working and shipping on all platforms, I can't think of a
> reason why we w
On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 3:50 AM, Nicholas Nethercote wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Cameron Kaiser
> wrote:
> >
> > This would essentially mandate, then, that Gecko can only be built on
> > platforms with a Rust toolchain. That may be desirable, but it would
> > probably bust some of
On 12/13/15 12:50 AM, Nicholas Nethercote wrote:
On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
This would essentially mandate, then, that Gecko can only be built on
platforms with a Rust toolchain. That may be desirable, but it would
probably bust some of the obscure Tier-3 platforms
On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>
> This would essentially mandate, then, that Gecko can only be built on
> platforms with a Rust toolchain. That may be desirable, but it would
> probably bust some of the obscure Tier-3 platforms and it would definitely
> bust TenFourFox (we
On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Cameron Kaiser
wrote:
> On 12/4/15 3:53 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have written a proposal to a) rewrite Gecko's encoding converters
>> and b) to do it in Rust:
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/document
On 12/4/15 3:53 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote:
Hi,
I have written a proposal to a) rewrite Gecko's encoding converters
and b) to do it in Rust:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13GCbdvKi83a77ZcKOxaEteXp1SOGZ_9Fmztb9iX22v0/edit
[...]
Furthermore, I think the rewrite should be in Rust, becau
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On 12/04/2015 04:54 PM, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Ted Mielczarek
> wrote:
>> 1) What does Servo do, just use rust-encoding directly?
>
> That is my understanding, but it would be good if a Servo
> developer could confirm.
On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Ted Mielczarek wrote:
>> 2) Instead of a clean-room implementation, would it be possible to fix
>> the problems you see with rust-encoding so that it's suitable for our
>> use? Especially if Servo is already us
On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Ted Mielczarek wrote:
> 1) What does Servo do, just use rust-encoding directly?
That is my understanding, but it would be good if a Servo developer
could confirm.
> 2) Instead of a clean-room implementation, would it be possible to fix
> the problems you see with
On Fri, Dec 4, 2015, at 06:53 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have written a proposal to a) rewrite Gecko's encoding converters
> and b) to do it in Rust:
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/13GCbdvKi83a77ZcKOxaEteXp1SOGZ_9Fmztb9iX22v0/edit
>
> I'd appreciat
Hi,
I have written a proposal to a) rewrite Gecko's encoding converters
and b) to do it in Rust:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13GCbdvKi83a77ZcKOxaEteXp1SOGZ_9Fmztb9iX22v0/edit
I'd appreciate comments--especially from the owners of the uconv
module and from people who have
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