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Re: py-cryptography soon will need rust



On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 08:15:42PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> So does this mean lots of things will be broken on platforms without
> rust?  And you think that's ok?   Certainly, the bug is in others
> choosing to use a language with poor portability properties, even if
> they like other properties.

I don't like it, but I don't think it's my problem to solve. Upstream
decided this way, so protests should go there.

> If we version things for 2.7, it seems to make as much sense, arguably
> even more sense, to version for portability.

This is why I'm discussing this, so that someone who wants to spend
time on this can handle it. I guess it could be done similarly to how
librsvg-c vs. librsvg is handled.
 Thomas



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