Miss Dada  🏳️‍⚧️

Commenting here since it's tangential, and I don't want to derail your issue, but I think we really need to decide as a community what we consider to be the norm for compiler version support. I think we can be more aggressive than other langs, but different crates have diff needs

I agree. To be clear though, if it were only about MSRV, I could overlook that, at least for rand. I still like the LTS idea that boats/aturon proposed. It provides a rallying point. Adding MSRV to Cargo.toml in order to improve failure modes is also a good start.

LTS RFC is definitely the most compelling solution I've seen so far. I also agree adding this to Cargo.toml would be great, especially if it affected version resolution

How’d crate maintainers be compensated ($) for maintaining an LTS version that’s no fun, only pain? There’s no plan for that, AFAICT, making the whole LTS idea accidentally anti-maintainer & pro-freeloading, despite good intentions. “Latest stable Rust only” works economically.