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Date:      Wed, 29 Jan 2020 02:37:25 +0000
From:      Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Rust in base
Message-ID:  <20200129023725.37d691e1b8887de9a325f2dc@sohara.org>
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On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 19:16:21 -0500
"Garance A Drosehn" <drosih@rpi.edu> wrote:

> Right now users who are interested in rust can install it via the ports
> tree.  My experience with rust on macOS is that it takes a long time to
> compile, so I'd suggest using 'pkg install rust' if you want it on
> FreeBSD.

	There's another reason for not putting into the base, it would
increase the buildworld time a lot and thus impact CI and build farm
resources reducing the rate of CI builds and thus impacting quality.

	Perl was dropped because it was too big.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>



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