From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: the importance of rust-build-system [Fwd: [tor-dev] Tor in a safer language: Network team update from Amsterdam] Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2017 14:58:24 -0400 Message-ID: <20170401185824.GA27445@jasmine> References: <20170401075841.242czleuqvibqmjf@abyayala> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55499) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cuOEJ-0000vo-Vv for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Apr 2017 14:58:32 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cuOEF-0000Bz-Ug for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Apr 2017 14:58:32 -0400 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:42466) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cuOEF-0000BY-EW for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Apr 2017 14:58:27 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170401075841.242czleuqvibqmjf@abyayala> 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, Danny Milosavljevic On Sat, Apr 01, 2017 at 07:58:41AM +0000, ng0 wrote: > tor is seriously considering to switch to rust. I have my own open > bugs / roadmap points which depend on our rust-build-system working. > tor will not switch immediately, but it shows the importance of having a > working rust-build-system. Firefox will switch at some point. It's immediately important because the latest version of librsvg (used to create the GuixSD GRUB background image) is written in Rust. We could even update that package "the hard way", without a full rust-build-system.