[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Please consider packaging a Rust version that allows #![feature(...)]

[Luca Bruno]

[Also moving this part of the thread out BTS, back to ML]

On Monday 31 August 2015 11:26:13 Ximin Luo wrote:

> So this actually contains no extra information than the strings (e.g.)
> "1.3.0" or "1.3.0-beta.3" or "1.3.0-nightly" etc, but has the disadvantage
> of not being comparable. I am wondering if we should just (a) patch this to
> use $(CFG_RELEASE) instead, and maybe (b) call the package libstd-rust-1,
> since semantic versioning is supposed to mean backwards compatibility
> between 1.3.0 and 1.2.0. That would be more sane, and I've asked in #rust
> about it.

We are talking here about the SONAME of rustc-provided shared objects (.so) 
here, and the idea is that package name match the libraries' suffix.

Given that rust doesn't have a stable ABI, I'm pretty sure that talking about 
semver stability doesn't apply here (but I haven't checked the symbols).

Moreover, this hash suffix is deeply rooted into rust/cargo dylib generation, 
so I would avoid patching stuff on our side.

Cheers, Luca

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