28 Aug
2019
28 Aug
'19
7:35 p.m.
On 2019-08-28 13:19:17 -0400 (-0400), Matthew Treinish wrote: [...]
Also, even assuming orjson start publishing sdists you'll still need nightly rust installed to compile it since pyo3 only works with the nightly builds of rust at this point. Which while not difficult to do, is not something people typically have installed.
This points out yet another portability issue. After watching the Debian community struggle to backport security-supported versions of Firefox to their stable releases, which involved needing to backport a full rust toolchain along with it, I'm unconvinced that's the sort of scenario we should be inflicting on our users either. -- Jeremy Stanley