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

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> skribis:

> On Sun, May 15, 2022 at 11:22:05PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

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>> 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.

OK.

>> 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.

On i686 as well maybe?

> 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.

Yup, makes sense.  We can try that eventually on a branch.

Ludo’.