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Re: the importance of rust-build-system [Fwd: [tor-dev] Tor in a safer l
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Leo Famulari |
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Re: the importance of rust-build-system [Fwd: [tor-dev] Tor in a safer language: Network team update from Amsterdam] |
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Sat, 1 Apr 2017 14:58:24 -0400 |
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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.