> There was a brief few weeks at the beginning of this year where pyca/cryptography had a hard dependency on a rust compiler being on the local system To build

> There was a brief few weeks at the beginning of this year where pyca/cryptography had a hard dependency on a rust compiler being on the local system To build. Not to use. Your ansible use case would be totally unaffected, as ansible can just pull the manylinux, Windows or Mac wheel from pypi [1] or the python{,3}-cryptography package from your repo[2]. The one major distro where you can't use the manylinux wheel if you decide to build yourself is Alpine, and Alpine packages a sufficiently modern Rust compiler to build the module since 3.12, released May 2020 so it's a non issue there. The last Alpine version without a sufficiently up to date Rust compiler, 3.11, goes out of support in 1.5 months. This is not like an application depending on a specific Node or Python version, where it must be there at runtime. You can use Ansible with no rust compiler in your life. Anyway, the current commit of python-cryptography requires Rust 1.41, from January 2020 in the latest commit. This is only two months newer than the required Python version (3.8, from October 2019) for the current commit of Ansible... [1]: https://pypi.org/project/cryptography/#files https://pypi.org/project/cryptography/#files [2]: e.g. for the oldest supported ubuntu version https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/python-cryptography https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/python-cryptography