[Cryptography-dev] Rust in pyca/cryptography

Barry Scott barry.scott at forcepoint.com
Wed Jan 13 09:44:59 EST 2021


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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