Re: Removal of firefox115 and firefox128

[Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost>]

Is this also related to probs I have with FireFox 128?

On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 10:30 AM Brad Spencer <brad%anduin.eldar.org@localhost> wrote:
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> Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> writes:
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> >   - 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
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> [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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> Brad Spencer - brad%anduin.eldar.org@localhost