Re: py-maturin and version requirement

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Thomas Klausner <wiz%gatalith.at@localhost> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 06:17:02PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> Thomas Klausner <wiz%gatalith.at@localhost> writes:
>> 
>> > On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 12:38:18PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> >>   - py-rpds-py is buggy because it requires recent maturin but doesn't
>> >>     declare that
>> >
>> > I think this one.
>> 
>> How would it do that, when there is a tool.mk it is supposed to use, and
>> which does not have such a facility?
>
> Introduce a MATURIN_REQD variable?

Sure, I guess we could.  I was hoping for something safe enough in
freeze, and that seems too much for me to want to be responsible for.
It's still not clear to me if this is "maturin is unstable" or "rpds-py"
is odd.  I suspect anyone doing pbulk or who doesn't use bin-install
would never have hit this.