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It's one thing for a problem to exist. It's another entirely for a person, a group, or a community to be informed about the problem, only to have the problem be

• zokier 6y ago
  Rust github project has at the moment 6707 open issues. This is just one issue among many. Somewhat obviously at this scale the Rust team can not resolve every issue immediately.
• seoaeu 6y ago
  The problem wasn't ignored. If you read the issue discussion on GitHub [edit: for the first linked issue], you can see that there's back and forth with the compiler developers about how certain information can easily be stripped and other places are harder to deal with. Eventually the original poster finds a workaround and declares their problem solved.
• coldtea 6y ago
  Priorities? I'm pretty sure they have 200000 other problems to care about too. Why should they start with this?
• rrss 6y ago
  the current status is that rustc has flags to remap the file paths, which I think makes the situation with rust the same as the situation with every other build system. pretty much every build system will by default leak paths and times and whatnot from the builder, and need to be configured to not do that. AFAICT, the open issues are that some people want that to be the default and a few people are upset that changing the default requires an RFC.
• deleted 6y ago
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