From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ng0 Subject: Re: cargo-build-system: cargo-build-flags: --cfg=unix in package recipe Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2017 13:44:25 +0000 Message-ID: <87shozueh2.fsf@wasp.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> 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> <20170104142601.2b678a6a@scratchpost.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54886) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cOlrE-0008SS-Fy for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2017 08:44:01 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cOlr9-0005xi-NY for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2017 08:44:00 -0500 Received: from aibo.runbox.com ([91.220.196.211]:33368) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cOlr9-0005xQ-GU for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2017 08:43:55 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20170104142601.2b678a6a@scratchpost.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: Danny Milosavljevic Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Danny Milosavljevic writes: > 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 > I agree. I think it's not a solution we should try unless we haven't tried every possible solution out there. -- ♥Ⓐ ng0 PGP keys and more: https://n0is.noblogs.org/ http://ng0.chaosnet.org