[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#809316: Bug#809316: rustc: Support of arm archs

[Luca BRUNO]

On Tuesday, December 29, 2015 10:35:14 AM Sylvestre Ledru wrote:

> Package: rustc

> A contributor provides arm binaries:
> https://github.com/warricksothr/RustBuild
> We might be able to boostrap rust using it.

Upstream is documenting quite well the maturity of each OS/arch they target:
https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/book/getting-started.html

arm (32,64) is currently at Tier2, same as mips (LE,BE).
ppc is a Tier3, instead.

Before providing binaries for non-Tier1 arches, I would discuss this with 
upstream, as we have several drawbacks:
 * we need an external/custom stage0
 * no CI/testing before release
 * stability and support is not guaranteed

IMHO, a better option would be to voice for promotion of some arches.
armhf and arm64 looks like good candidates to me, and I guess the main blocker 
at the moment is lack of upstream CI infrastructure.

Cheers, Luca

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