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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Alex Griffin <a@ajgrf.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: rust work in progress conflicts
Date: Fri, 06 May 2016 11:59:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h9eb8q1t.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1462459586.3181019.599022233.5F377A74@webmail.messagingengine.com> (Alex Griffin's message of "Thu, 05 May 2016 09:46:26 -0500")

Alex Griffin <a@ajgrf.com> skribis:

> On Thu, May 5, 2016, at 08:35 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> 
>> Yeah it’s OK to do it in the order: write the package bootstrapped from
>> the binary blob, and then work on bootstrapping it from OCaml.
>
> I do not think that bootstrapping Rust from OCaml is a practical goal.
> When you guys have talked about bootstrapping gcc from an older version,
> I don't think it has involved even a dozen gcc versions, let alone 319!

If it really has to be 319 versions of Rust, then I agree.
I thought/hoped that it would in fact be just a few of them.

Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com> skribis:

> Also FWIW, I think in the future a sane bootstrap is probably more
> likely from a MIR interpreter (something like this but implemented from
> another language: https://github.com/tsion/miri/tree/master/src).

Yeah, though MIR it not source (not the “preferred form”), AIUI.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-05-06 10:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-25 17:45 LLVM: "FileCheck" is missing Danny Milosavljevic
2016-03-25 21:58 ` Nils Gillmann
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 13:35     ` rust work in progress conflicts Ludovic Courtès
2016-05-05 14:46       ` Alex Griffin
2016-05-06  9:05         ` Andy Wingo
2016-05-06  9:15           ` Andy Wingo
2016-05-06  9:59         ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-05-05 15:06     ` ng0
2016-07-28  8:28       ` ng0
2016-07-28 18:31         ` Eric Le Bihan
2016-07-29  9:03           ` Andreas Enge
2016-07-29 11:40             ` Vincent Legoll
2016-07-29 14:37               ` ng0
2016-07-30 10:04             ` 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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-07-29  9:46 rust work in progress conflicts David Craven

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