Debian, Rust, and librsvg

Posted Nov 16, 2018 18:30 UTC (Fri) by josh (subscriber, #17465)
In reply to: Debian, Rust, and librsvg by madscientist
Parent article: Debian, Rust, and librsvg

> Rust only guarantees that rustc can be built with the immediately previous version of the compiler AND a new version is released every 6 weeks or so, it's a major difference from GCC and a serious headache for distributions.

Rust doesn't systematically demand the latest prior release to build itself; it simply does not refrain from using features as they become available. As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, folks are working on creating a minimized series of rustc versions to successively bootstrap from the last OCaml version.