Revisiting native rust

[Jan Danielsson <jan.m.danielsson%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hello,

   Out of curiosity, what is the background with regard to not 
supporting "native" rust?  Is it purely due to versioning problems 
(pkgsrc needs to enforce a strict version) or is it related to the 
actual building process (compiling/linking needing to be patched in some 
manner)?

   If it the former, has anyone looked into version pinning?

   The rust commands support a +<version> argument to force a specific 
version.

   We built our own simple package management system for 
cross-compiling packages for an embedded platform.  In its configuration 
file one specifies a RUST_VERSION environment variable, which is passed 
to cargo:

   cargo +1.70.1 build --target=armv7-unknown-linux-gnueabihf


   Has this already been considered (and rejected)?

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Kind Regards,
Jan