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Re:Meta pledges Three-Year sponsorship for Python if GIL rem... by kzrdude on Saturday July 08, 2023 @12:35PM (#36646031)
FWIW, I don't think it's nice that rustup fetches and installs new versions without prompting, but I suppose that other users like it or get used to it. Fortunately most Rust projects work on any recently stable version.
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Re:Meta pledges Three-Year sponsorship for Python if GIL rem... by super_flanker on Sunday July 09, 2023 @12:30AM (#36651518)
> rustup fetches and installs new versions without prompting

I don't think it's true. rustup installs new version only when you run `rustup update`. What parent is talking about is pinning a particular rustc version in Cargo.toml, which allows rustup to download that version of rustc to build that particular project/crate.

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Re:Meta pledges Three-Year sponsorship for Python if GIL rem... by kzrdude on Sunday July 09, 2023 @03:27AM (#36652412)
rustup will automatically download that version when you interact with that project, though, and that's what I mean. It doesn't sit right with me, comes as a surprise, but I guess it's not the biggest issue in the world.
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