[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bootstrap of rust

[Sylvestre Ledru]

On 20/01/2015 10:46, Luca Bruno wrote:
>
>> AFAIK, the "right" way to bootstrap a compiler:
>> * Build a local instance of the compiler on your system (whatever the
>> method is)
>> * Package the newly built compiler
>> * Use the package to build compiler
>> * Upload this package
>>
>> Once the package is in the archive, use the official package to build
>> the new version of the compiler.
> Been there, tried that. I collected some notes on the wiki[1].
>
> In theory it's all good. In practice:
>  * upstream periodically snapshots stage0. This happens multiple times 
>    between releases, so I don't expect eg. 1.0.1 to be bootstrappable 
>    from 1.0.0 (experienced this somewhere around the 0.8->0.9 release)
One of the promise of 1.0 is stability of the language... Maybe we can
expect
to be able to use rustc in Debian to do the bootstrap (but I would not
count on this too much).

Thanks for all the info,
Sylvestre

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