[Cryptography-dev] Rust in pyca/cryptography

[Barry Scott]

On Wednesday, 13 January 2021 14:47:37 GMT Alex Gaynor wrote:
> I'm glad to hear some folks are actually auditing 3rd party sources.
> 
> Once you install a rust toolchain, you'll be able to build
> pyca/cryptography the same as ever.
> 
> To repeat: if there's some action we can be taking to make this
> migration smoother, we're happy to consider it. But what we won't do
> is simply stop trying to drop C.

I'm all for better code.

I just wanted to point out that you have user that do not show up in PyPI stats.

Barry


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> Alex
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> On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 9:45 AM Barry Scott <barry.scott at forcepoint.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tuesday, 12 January 2021 17:23:10 GMT Alex Gaynor wrote:
> > > Running `yum install rust` in a CentOS8 docker container seems to get
> > > me rustc 1.45.2, and as our docs say, 1.45.0 will be the initial
> > > minimum version
> > > (https://cryptography.io/en/latest/installation.html#rust).
> > >
> > > As ever, our wheels (which are how the vast majority of our users
> > > install pyca/cryptography) will not require any compiler or build
> > > toolchain on user's machines.
> >
> > But in the enterprise space its a no-no to use the wheels you build.
> >
> > I get your source, audit it and build that for use in our environment.
> >
> > Barry
> >
> > >
> > > Alex
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 12:17 PM Barry Scott <barry.scott at forcepoint.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Tuesday, 12 January 2021 15:52:01 GMT Michael Ströder via Cryptography-dev wrote:
> > > > > On 12/22/20 8:43 PM, Alex Gaynor wrote:
> > > > > > As we previewed in August [0] we're planning to incorporate Rust code
> > > > > > into pyca/cryptography.
> > > > >
> > > > > IMHO this will make life of distro packagers more miserable especially
> > > > > on non-x86 platforms.
> > > >
> > > > I was also concerned by that new toolset dependency.
> > > >
> > > > Will this build on Centos 8 with the version of rust that is packaged there?
> > > >
> > > > Barry
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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