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On Mon, 08 Feb 2021 12:19:13 +0100 |
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Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> FYI the developers of dev-python/cryptography decided that Rust is going |
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> to be mandatory for 1.5+ versions. It's unlikely that they're going to |
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> provide LTS support or security fixes for the old versions. |
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> <snip> |
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> Honestly, I don't think it likely that Rust will gain support for these |
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> platforms. This involves a lot of work, starting with writing a new |
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> LLVM backend and getting it accepted (getting new code into LLVM is very |
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> hard unless you're doing that on behalf one of the big companies). You |
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> can imagine how much effort that involves compared to rewriting the new |
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> code from Cryptography into C. |
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I do know that there is ongoing work to get Rust going on m68k but it's |
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very slow and I'm not entirely confident they'll get there. At least I |
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don't have this package on my m68k system! |
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James Le Cuirot (chewi) |
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