Nope. Literally no distro is going to deal with updating random language toolchains in an LTS release. The risk of bugs and breakage is too high. The existence of LTS releases means users want software that doesn't need non-security updates frequently. https://twitter.com/BRIAN_____/status/1057096785653510150 …
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They usually do it themselves, or they choose not to ship that language or any program written in it.
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As a developer, my projects specify support for a certain set of OSes, including LTS support, so I am interested in having a set of Rust releases that are LTS supported.
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How interested, in dollars, are you?
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Unfortunately, since these are free time open-source projects and not my job, I'm unable to pay people to do the work. My employer doesn't use Rust.
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So you are $0 = 0% interested?
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I would donate to a fund that supported that work as part of a group, but as an individual, I am not financially able to employ full time staff.
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Most language communities agree on a few significant stable releases that third parties can coalesce around and companies can maintain and support, even if upstream does not. Rust is generally an exception in that regard.
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The Rust toolchain teams do a good job of maintaining backward compatibility. Some times some crates have to be manually tweaked to support the newest release but that's nothing compared to the cost of maintaining support for old toolchain versions.
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In particular, if the fix for a security issue depends on 1,200 non-security-fix commits, how do they backport the fix if the package authors don't care? I guess they just do it themselves and hope it works?
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@bk2204 is right, but I have to say that for me LTS are versions for servers or enterprises and not for desktop. And a user always have the option to download the toolchain from the site instead from the distro packages. I use Arch because this, because versions.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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