Re: [PATCH RFC v2 0/7] Introduce Rust and announce that it will become mandatorty

> On 05/09/2025 15:28, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 05, 2025 at 03:14:25PM +0100, Phillip Wood wrote:
> > > 
> > > It looks like this version does include the necessary Makefile changes which
> > > is great. I do think though, that for the test balloon to be valuable, we
> > > need make building with rust the default with an error message that tells
> > > people how to build without rust if that fails. Otherwise it is easy for
> > > people building on platforms without rust support to miss that we're going
> > > to be making it mandatory soon.
> > 
> > I have a plan layed out in the BreakingChanges document that mentions
> > how I'm proposing to do the transition:
> > 
> >    1. We introduce it with auto-detection for Meson and default-disabled
> >       for our Makefile in Git 2.52.
> 
> I'm not sure how much this helps us. You've said elsewhere that you don't
> want to be inundated with bug reports which is fair enough, but I'm fairly
> skeptical that we're going to get enough people enabling this get a useful
> amount of early feedback. So I wonder if it would be better just to bite the
> bullet and enable it by default from the start. I think I saw Elijah making
> a similar argument elsewhere in this thread.