From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Griffin Subject: Re: rust work in progress conflicts Date: Thu, 05 May 2016 09:46:26 -0500 Message-ID: <1462459586.3181019.599022233.5F377A74@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <20160325184540.4e02cb2d@scratchpost.org> <87k2kq6wma.fsf@grrlz.net> <87oa8mt8lh.fsf@gmail.com> <87lh3obpaz.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60845) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ayKYH-000192-Nb for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 May 2016 10:46:59 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ayKY5-0002HM-UU for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 May 2016 10:46:48 -0400 Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:57713) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ayKY3-0002Cd-EB for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 May 2016 10:46:41 -0400 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6879208CF for ; Thu, 5 May 2016 10:46:26 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87lh3obpaz.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org On Thu, May 5, 2016, at 08:35 AM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: >=20 > Yeah it=E2=80=99s OK to do it in the order: write the package bootstrappe= d from > the binary blob, and then work on bootstrapping it from OCaml. I do not think that bootstrapping Rust from OCaml is a practical goal. When you guys have talked about bootstrapping gcc from an older version, I don't think it has involved even a dozen gcc versions, let alone 319! It's a huge amount of work, to the point where it may even be easier to write a new Rust compiler from scratch. Even if it succeeded, it would take over a full week to build the current Rust release, meanwhile OCaml requires a blob anyway. I'd love to be proven wrong, but in any case I don't think it's reasonable to expect Jelle Licht to take on this project just because he assumed the mantle of rustc packager. --=20 Alex Griffin