Announcing the new Rust package manager, Cargo

Re:Announcing the new Rust package manager, Cargo by malandrew on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @02:04PM (#7423751)

    "If you do not consider consoles or embedded systems major 
    platforms that is. Most of the world is not POSIX."

Would you even use a package manager on an embedded system? I would imagine that a package manager is far more appropriate for development systems and systems capable of being used for development. An embedded system would probably use a much simpler install system like what is used in TinyCore linux, if not even simpler than that. In fact, I would expect the package management on an embedded system to be driven by another system, which may be POSIX compliant. That software that puts code on that embedded system or console could be an extension to an existing package manager.

The biggest issue with most package managers AFAICT is that most aren't designed first as a platform with a programmatic interface. At the end of the day, the CLI for a package manager should be just one of the clients driving the package manager.

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Re:Announcing the new Rust package manager, Cargo by mcpherrinm on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @04:19PM (#7424714)

A package manager like this is intended for development time. Since you don't actually do your development on the embedded system, you can still use it fine.

You'd generate some build artifact with the help of Cargo, and that's what you'd load onto your device.

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