From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Danny Milosavljevic Subject: Re: cargo-build-system: cargo-build-flags: --cfg=unix in package recipe Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 14:26:01 +0100 Message-ID: <20170104142601.2b678a6a@scratchpost.org> References: <20170103021018.64ac3887@scratchpost.org> <20170103033234.7d3573ec@scratchpost.org> <20170103125525.1e361945@scratchpost.org> <87mvf712d0.fsf@wasp.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50562) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cOla0-0000kv-4d for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2017 08:26:13 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cOlZx-0006Lp-14 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2017 08:26:12 -0500 Received: from dd1012.kasserver.com ([85.13.128.8]:45040) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cOlZw-0006K1-QR for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2017 08:26:08 -0500 In-Reply-To: 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: David Craven Cc: guix-devel I'm against packaging unstable stuff. We would be packaging a moving target where everything breaks every day. Let's not. There's a reason there are stable releases (of anything): there's (supposed to be) a (social) guarantee that the API doesn't change in incompatible ways. If a library doesn't work in a stable release, upstream has to get it to work. Simple as that. Otherwise it just shouldn't be packaged. People can still use cargo to install it so we aren't preventing anyone from using it. That said, there could be a rustc-devel package (only for rustc). Other packages, people should be on their own. Please, let's not make unstable stable by decree. If anything, upstream should just release more stuff as stable (if it's stable) :P