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Coordinate with "std-aware Cargo" WG

Open cher-nov opened this issue 1 month ago • 0 comments

Although this initiative currently looks somewhat stalled, I decided to mention this collaboration opportunity anyway, just like #9 and #10 do. See this for rationale: https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-project-goals/2025h1/build-std.html

In theory, some portability issues could be solved by simply rebuilding the standard library, disabling the unsupported functionality or switching to alternative code paths. The set of *-win7-windows-msvc tier-3 targets is pretty good example of this. Another one is Rust9x project. This is exactly what build-std is for, among other things.

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cher-nov avatar Jan 09 '25 23:01 cher-nov