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On Fri, Jul 29, 2016, at 10:16 AM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote:
> Do you know what=E2=80=99s Rust=E2=80=99s bootstrapping story is?  Can we=
 reasonably
> expect to bootstrap it from source, using a series of previous Rust
> versions, or using an alternative implementation?

Yes, Rust 1.10 builds with the previous stable release (1.9) for the
first time. So we will only need one binary to bootstrap Rust. Although
this will quickly require a long chain of builds because Rust releases
every 6 weeks and 1.11 is only guaranteed to build with 1.10, etc.

So after only two years we may need to compile like 17 different
releases to get the current version.
--=20
Alex Griffin