Re: Removal of firefox115 and firefox128

[Brad Spencer <brad%anduin.eldar.org@localhost>]

Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> writes:

[snip]

>   - be prepared to give up on marginal arches for rust, and concentrate
>     on amd64, aarch64, i386, earmv7hf-el, and consider having a working
>     rust-bin good enough for the 32-bit arches

[snip]

I assume you are suggesting using rust's ability to create a cross
compilers.  If the assumption that rust can that well, is true[1], then
I think that the ONLY architecture that should be compiling the rust
compiler from source is amd64 and aarch64 and literally everything else
should be a cross compiler created from one of those two.

This is probably not a popular suggestion (and email is not a good
medium to convey what I intend with my statement), but given that the
rust compiler is huge, bordering on gargantuan, and the language is
unstable, limiting the number of architectures that compile the compiler
would seem to be reasonable.





[1] - This:
https://users.rust-lang.org/t/the-ultimate-i386-rust-compiler-for-older-cpus/4620
is rather suggestive that cross compiling is done, although this is an
older post, I realize.








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