[Rust] Re: Rust SIG? Count me in!
On 01/30/2017 12:11 PM, Fabio Valentini wrote:
Now, that's only for Rust<->Rust. In the case of FFI,
you're actually
using a C ABI, and this should be fine. Dynamic linking should be
preferred for both Rust making FFI calls and for Rust providing FFI for
other languages to call.
Exactly, the FFI case is the one I am a bit worried about.
It's not feasible for every package wanting to use a rust crate via a
FFI to build (as cdylibs) and bundle the needed crates.
OK, but I'm not sure why you're worried about this. If a crate is
providing FFI, that part should be built and shipped as a .so just like
any other rpm library.
I mean, we haven't formalized Rust packaging yet, but this will need to
be part of it. We're talking about source-based devel packages for
general Rust libraries, statically linked, but FFI should be treated
like any other provided library in Fedora.