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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: David Craven <david@craven.ch>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Rust
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2016 15:39:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bn1fckj2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL1_im=17UJgdMDGskSL_1O7d+sWwnrVyjTyPwkrB6qrQ2G1+Q@mail.gmail.com> (David Craven's message of "Fri, 29 Jul 2016 21:10:41 +0200")

David Craven <david@craven.ch> skribis:

>> Can we reasonably expect to bootstrap it from source,
>> using a series of previous Rust versions, or using an
>> alternative implementation?
>
> Currently as Jelle said no. But there is [0] that may be a
> viable option in the future.
>
> [0] https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc

That would be great.

>> Having crates available as normal Guix packages is the
>> best option for Guix users: uniform interface, the ability
>> to use ‘guix environment’ and all the tools, transactional
>> upgrade and rollback, etc.
>
> I think with a cargo plugin that interacts with the guix daemon,

The Guix daemon is very low-level, is has no idea what a package is, so
it’d be the wrong place for such things IMO.

What we did for other languages should work here: (1) provide an
importer, and (2) provide a build system (we have ‘guix import cpan’ and
‘perl-build-system’, and so on.)

Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-30 13:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-29 19:10 Rust David Craven
2016-07-30 13:39 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-09-04 14:50 Rust David Craven
2016-09-07  6:04 ` Rust Eric Le Bihan
2016-03-25 17:45 LLVM: "FileCheck" is missing Danny Milosavljevic
2016-03-25 22:06 ` rust work in progress conflicts (was: Re: LLVM: "FileCheck" is missing) Nils Gillmann
2016-05-04 10:34   ` Jelle Licht
2016-05-05 15:06     ` rust work in progress conflicts ng0
2016-07-28  8:28       ` ng0
2016-07-28 18:31         ` Eric Le Bihan
2016-07-29 15:16           ` Rust Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-29 15:34             ` Rust Alex Griffin
2016-07-29 16:08               ` Rust Jelle Licht
2016-07-30 13:34               ` Rust Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-30 17:57                 ` Rust Pjotr Prins
2016-07-30 11:01             ` Rust Eric Le Bihan
2016-07-30 13:44               ` Rust Ludovic Courtès

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