(Which btw if you want to talk about OS distribution is basically "everything that targets any Linux or BSD" but that's another rant)
That's the key. Nothing Rust could do other than commit to a stable ABI would be sufficient, and that's an unacceptable demand.
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Also, packaging groups make exceptions to their rules (Chrome, for example), and it's very hard to even discuss these things.
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fwiw, I'd be very happy to have a conversation with someone interested in hashing this out with an open mind.
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I've yet to meet any one person who understands both sides of this. The Debian working group is like half a dozen people which seems like-
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-a tiny amount of people for getting Rust into one of the most important OSes. The OS story is, imo, the single most important Rust thing rn
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Which is a long way of saying I don't know who you should talk to, but maybe seek out the working groups for each OS+Rust effort? :)
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(for reference, I'm on rust core team and creator of Cargo, very interested in Debian integration that satisfies Debian core constraints)
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(I know who you are! :P the Debian effort seems pretty far along btw - https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/RustPackaging …)
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