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> It is assumed that by following the steps in this proposal that Alpine users will be presented with a functional Rust toolchain which has a maintenance window
by olingern 5y ago
> It is assumed that by following the steps in this proposal that Alpine users will be presented with a functional Rust toolchain which has a maintenance window of 2 years, that is also supportable by the Rust community through its normal support channels.
I’m struggling to see the benefit of moving from community to main. It seems more symbolic and geared towards making certain guarantees for end users, but it’s hard to grok that
- EwanToo 5y agoI think without that commitment, it's hard for the overall Alpine distribution and other teams working on it to use Rust as part of their toolchain.
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 5y ago> I’m struggling to see the benefit of moving from community to main I think this is about using Rust in the Alpine distribution itself and having core components actually use Rust.
- edoceo 5y agoAt this point it's just getting ready to have the future option of more core stuff in Rust. Step0:tooling; Step1:packages