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 (DIR) Post #AP9oxUYrtUkMwdyNSC by flukejones@mastodon.gamedev.place
       2022-10-31T20:15:13Z
       
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       Stop trying to duplicate the efforts of crates.io and shoehorning rust in to an ancient packaging model creating pain for for actual developers you fucking wallies. https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/912202/79e7892b07f9350a/Seriously. Stop trying to package crates. It's nothing short of idiotic. It achieves nothing except duplicated effort across all ecosystems and huge amounts of friction for actual developers.
       
 (DIR) Post #AP9oxV1EC3QqMbF1eq by moonbolt@mst3k.interlinked.me
       2022-10-31T23:04:20Z
       
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       @flukejones @fasterthanlime Okay, let's talk about this.There seems to be a pretty big rift, including conflicting goals and more than a little resentment, between developers and packagers; and I frequently see a lot of anger and not much productive discussion.As I understand it, developers want to be able to innovate freely and not be held back by the past, and packagers want stability and predictability. And there are a bunch issues that split across this line, including static vs dynamic linking, release frequency, dependency volume, where the package repositories should be…