Re: python-cryptography and rust [was: Re: ‘staging’ branch is open!]

[Efraim Flashner]

On Sun, May 15, 2022 at 11:22:05PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi Efraim,
> 
> (+Cc: Marius.)
> 
> Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> skribis:
> 
> > python-cryptography now depends on rust. We're going to need 3.4.8 from
> > the 3.4 series for the other architectures. Currently
> > python-cryptography@36.0.1 is gating about 3000 packages.
> 
> Yes, so what do you mean?  Should we keep the old 3.3.1 for use on
> non-x86_64 platforms?  Would that even work?

I'll add 3.4.8 for non-x86_64 platforms and see if I can do something
about the rust inputs for python-cryptography, to shorten the graph a
bit and note which crates are "locked" in their current versions.

> Besides, since mrustc was updated on ‘staging’, does that new version
> better support platforms other than x86_64?

I hear we should be able to do aarch64 with our new version of mrustc
but I haven't tried building it yet on my machines. I'd leave it as a
happy bonus for now and leave aarch64 with the C counterparts for this
round, rather than relying on the rust bootstrap chain, considering how
much RAM it can use.

> Thanks for the heads-up,
> Ludo’.
> 

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