Re: [PATCH v2] gnu: Add rust (sidenotes on rust)

[David Craven]

> How problematic will this be for us? Our person in charge for the rust
> stuff works around this by including copies of the libraries in a folder
> named 'third_party', but I don't understand enough of the language and
> lack a build system at the moment.

Initially this isn't a problem, since we'll use cargo to build the c
dependencies of a package. The cargo packages that wrap c packages
usually have a detection mechanism to use system libraries instead of
building them - but I haven't looked into how this works exactly.

> These two links should be useful too, so it might not be that hard to
> establish a build system.

I don't think it's hard, but just takes time. The part that I expect
will take more time than the build system is the importer.