On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 5:44 PM [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wednesday, January 10, 2024 7:59 PM, Elijah Newren wrote:

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Would you be okay with the following alternative: requiring that all Rust code be
optional for now?

(In other words, allow you to build with USE_RUST=0, or something like that.  And
then we have both a Rust and a C implementation of anything that is required for
backward compatibility, while any new Rust-only stuff would not be included in
your build.)

To address the immediate above, I assume this means that platform maintainers will be responsible for developing non-portable implementations that duplicate Rust functionality

This doesn't at all sound like what I thought I said.  The whole
proposal was so that folks like NonStop could continue using Git with
no more work than setting USE_RUST=0 at build time.

Why do you feel you'd need to duplicate any functionality?