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Debian isn't a pure free software distribution (they have non-free repos run by the project). Does Trisquel or gNewSense have rustc or cargo packages?
by cyphar 10y ago
Debian isn't a pure free software distribution (they have non-free repos run by the project). Does Trisquel or gNewSense have rustc or cargo packages?
- steveklabnik 10y agoAh, sorry, I always forget about that. I haven't heard of any. But we are purely free software, so...
- cyphar 10y agoI know, I was just saying. By the same token, Go has the same problem (you need to use an old version of the compiler to build the current version). Though, I kinda wish that the problem was solved the same way that GCC solves it (you write a simple compiler in Assembly and then use it to bootstrap the full GCC toolchain which you then use to compile an optimised version of the GCC toolchain). Requiring an older binary of the compiler is an annoyance (and AFAICS would make porting harder).