* Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-python/cryptography to use rust, effectively killing alpha, hppa, ia64, m68k, s390
@ 2021-02-08 11:30 99% ` James Le Cuirot
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From: James Le Cuirot @ 2021-02-08 11:30 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Mon, 08 Feb 2021 12:19:13 +0100
Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> FYI the developers of dev-python/cryptography decided that Rust is going
> to be mandatory for 1.5+ versions. It's unlikely that they're going to
> provide LTS support or security fixes for the old versions.
>
> <snip>
>
> Honestly, I don't think it likely that Rust will gain support for these
> platforms. This involves a lot of work, starting with writing a new
> LLVM backend and getting it accepted (getting new code into LLVM is very
> hard unless you're doing that on behalf one of the big companies). You
> can imagine how much effort that involves compared to rewriting the new
> code from Cryptography into C.
I do know that there is ongoing work to get Rust going on m68k but it's
very slow and I'm not entirely confident they'll get there. At least I
don't have this package on my m68k system!
--
James Le Cuirot (chewi)
Gentoo Linux Developer
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