[bug#74078] [PATCH] gnu: Add dart

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi Tobias,

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> writes:

> On 10 November 2024 17:47:59 UTC, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> wrote:
>>We could keep the sky from falling by documenting that once a known bootstrap 
>>path exists, it *must* be used.
>
> As well as mandating the oldest (which is almost certainly the
> smallest) known binary seed.  And we must count it as such.
>
> Granted, it'll ruin our ‘binary seed reduced by N MiB!’ blog posts in
> exchange for a larger/more modern package collection.

I'm pretty sure we already have some binary bootstrapped compilers.
Your suggestions toward documenting a policy make a lot of sense to me;
if you have the bandwidth, I'd like to see it drafted, perhaps as an RFC?

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Thanks,
Maxim