From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Lassieur Subject: Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Icecat 60 Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2018 11:11:39 +0200 Message-ID: <87wotebe44.fsf@lassieur.org> References: <87efg8mhk0.fsf@lassieur.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59161) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fjhju-0003Uq-DQ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jul 2018 05:11:47 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fjhjq-0003to-Dl for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jul 2018 05:11:46 -0400 Received: from mail.lassieur.org ([83.152.10.219]:60846) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fjhjp-0003tO-R6 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jul 2018 05:11:42 -0400 In-reply-to: <87efg8mhk0.fsf@lassieur.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: guix-devel@gnu.org Pinging (one month left), and adding Mark. Cl=C3=A9ment Lassieur writes: > Hello, > > As this blog article[1] says, Firefox 52's end of life will happen on > August 28, 2018. That is, in 47 days. I imagine that by that time > Icecat 60 will be released, but it seems that we are pretty far from > being able to package it, because of the Rust packages that are needed. > There might be other technical difficulties that I'm not aware of, > though. > > Is there any plan in this regard? Maybe, as a first step, we should > list the required dependencies so that people can pick them up? My > understanding of that article[2] is that the top level dependencies are > listed in Cargo.toml[3]. > > What is the current state of the Rust build system (cargo-build-system)? > Is there anything blocking that would prevent its use? I'm asking > because I see very few packages in gnu/packages/rust.scm. > > Thank you, > Cl=C3=A9ment > > [1]: https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2018/01/11/announcing-esr60-= policy-engine/ > [2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Building_Firefox_with_Ru= st_code > [3]: https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/library/rust/= shared/Cargo.toml