<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">I am sorry I have not been a better maintainer for the Rust port.<div>Life has been a little hectic.</div><div><br></div><div>As has been discussed in this thread, there is definitely room for improvements in the Rust setup.</div><div>Until a final consensus is reached, I opened a pull request to at least get Rust to its latest version using the previous infrastructure.</div><div>(<a href="https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/17028">https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/17028</a>).</div><div><br></div><div>I am not sure the GCC and Clang ports are necessary a good model.</div><div>In those cases, there is a system compiler could build a compiler, which could be used to build a compiler, etc.</div><div>That is not the case for Rust.</div><div><br></div><div>To build Rust, MacPorts has to download Rust binaries.</div><div>If the system is new enough, upstream provides them.</div><div>If we want to support older system, we have to build and distribute our own.</div><div>Of course, mrustc and/or Rust-GCC may change that.</div><div><br></div><div>If we do decide to continue our own Rust binaries, I agree that it would be highly advisable to find a more suitable location.</div><div><br></div><div>-Marcus</div></body></html>