Rust needs to run, and be easy to use, on every platform

Re:Rust needs to run, and be easy to use, on every platform by nrclark on Thursday March 08, 2018 @02:51PM (#16547096)

For the Rustaceans out there, are there any plans to start getting Rust libraries packaged for Linux distros?

Cargo is an amazing build system. But the last time I used it (which was maybe a year ago), I was struck by how tough it would be to use it for compiling a Debian package. At the time, it seemed like a big roadblock against wider Rust adoption.

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Re:Rust needs to run, and be easy to use, on every platform by steveklabnik on Thursday March 08, 2018 @02:52PM (#16547113)

We've long worked with distros, each of them has different policies, and so does things differently. For example, https://crates.io/crates/debcargo is a tool created by Debian for this purpose. https://pagure.io/fedora-rust/rust2rpm is Fedora's.

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Re:Rust needs to run, and be easy to use, on every platform by masklinn on Thursday March 08, 2018 @02:57PM (#16547146)

From a few weeks back: https://fedoramagazine.org/oxidizing-fedora-try-rust-applica...

> Today, Fedora includes over 300 Rust crates in Rawhide, which at the time of this writing will become Fedora 28. Over 120 Rust crates are included in Fedora 27.

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