Re: Versioning rust (firefox91 again)

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2023 at 22:06, pin <voidpin%protonmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> ------- Original Message -------
> On Friday, July 14th, 2023 at 10:20 PM, David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> > Just a comment that with the latest rust version, firefox91 appears to
> > be non-buildable again - looks like it's bundled version of mp4parse
> > will not build with more modern rust. It may be possible to copy in a
> > more recent version of mp4parse, or patch the bundled version, but I
> > thought I'd raise the possibility of keeping an older version of rust
> > around for this kind of case (Presumably it would depend on whether
> > other packages have issues and/or if firefox91 is considered valuable
> > enough :)
>
> IMHO, supporting EOL software is no reason for versioning.
> An obvious option, as you mentioned, is to patch it to work with recent Rust.
>
> As a maintainer for the majority of the Rust (with exception to lang/rust) packages in tree, I don't like the idea of versioning Rust.
> The extra maintenance burden is simply not what I wish for.

With the rate of rust change I suspect at some point we may have to
have multiple versions, but I'm quite happy to concede that firefox91
alone is not that point...

I'm just grumpy as I've only just worked through the half-dozen files
that needed to be patched to get firefox91 to build with python3.11
rather than 3.9 :-p

I may take a pass at copying across the necessary changes from 102 to
91 to see if I can keep it for a while yet...

David