Demoting i686-pc-windows-gnu to Tier 2 (blog.rust-lang.org)

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Only the GNU-based targets are being demoted, not the MSVC-based ones.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Yeah, but those are the not-annoying ones. I don't care to spend 10 days installing 10 versions of the "Microsoft(c)(r) C++ Redistributable" or whatever it is called and 25 KBs in the right order with reboots in between on slowdows just to get a fucking compiler in CI. Compare this with a 5 second apt-get install mingw-gcc and done.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Sure, but the comment I was responding to seemed to be operating under the misunderstanding that there were no Windows maintainers at all, rather than just no maintainers for the GNU toolchain. In particular, the following remark gives the impression that they believe that no one at Microsoft is supporting Rust on Windows at all:

This is where is shake my head at corporate support. Microsoft has 200,000 employees. They cannot spare one for Rust?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I did misunderstand. Thank you.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Right. My mistake.

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