Re: rust vs rust-bin

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 02:42:06PM +0100, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
> BTW ATM lang/rust is still on 1.43.1nb1, whereas lang/rust-bin is
> already at 1.44.0. Switching could be potentially a problem.

Yes, rust-bin is intended to be a drop-in replacement for lang/rust
that doesn't require the somewhat painful bootstrapping process (but
runs on less platforms, because upstream only publishes full binaries
for certain targets).

We ended up in a slightly strange situation - the rust update was
held back because an optional experimental program was failing to build.
When rust published the official binaries, they just excluded that
program.