On Tuesday, November 19, 2019 1:24:50 PM CET William Brown wrote:
On 19 Nov 2019, at 20:43, Alberto Planas Dominguez
For Kanidm (and any project that uses Rust) this means that the devel version can compile on TW every day, but for Leap and SLE the version of the project and the compiler cannot change, and the fixes needs to be backported. This is aligned with how every product works: release and backport the fixes.
The issue becomes fixes to vendored dependencies (of which there are ~200 I think total. I directly have ~30 deps). Fixes to kanidm are simple to patch and backport, but fixes for vendored code ... not so much. That's what will really be the issue is rust has no concept of a security update vs a feature one - and most crates treat them as the same - updates. So you will have a vendor library that will both have security *and* feature changes, which will quickly be a maintainers nightmare.
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