LinuxQuestions.org - [SOLVED] So, the Slackware Team surrended in the front of RUST, and there is NO more modern Firefox packages for us?

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darth vader if you were any slower (mentaly) youd be stop. no clue how software is built how a distro is managed
no idea the hard work and effort that goes into it and lack the balls to even ask the main man(patrick) what his motivations are? yet you tied up this thread with your ignorance and retardation for days. youre qualification in this entire thread is that youve built firefox since version 53? thats quite the experience you have yet you can sit here and slam and insult everyone who peacefully tries to explain things to you. pack up your pitiful ego, move out of your moms basement and be a[removed] man

http://wigums.ddns.net/mozilla-firef...4-x86_64-1.txz
took me like an hour?

WOW, now that really is not called for.

All the recent talk about rust intrigued me.

I am usually skeptical of new languages and build methods but I do try to keep an open mind about them ... There are sometimes a few nuggets among all the tailings :)

Last weekend, I looked at Rust Documentation - The Rust Programming Language

It looked interesting and and seemed to be well-designed for it's particular problem domain, so I built rust from Andrew Clemons' SBo rust.SlackBuild on SBo when I had a little time to play.

Andrew's rust.SlackBuild did not seem to do anything scary and dangerous so I ran it in a log-wrapper and it built rust without issue:

Code:

# head -1 rust.SlackBuild-1.19.0.log && tail -1 rust.SlackBuild-1.19.0.log



rust.SlackBuild startup  at Thu Aug 24 18:38:53 CDT 2017

rust.SlackBuild complete at Thu Aug 24 19:05:01 CDT 2017 ... RetCode = 0

I checked to see whether any of the files in Andrew's SBo stepped on existing files ( it did not ).

And there is no doinst.sh script to inspect so I installed rust.

I wrote and compiled and ran the obligatory hello.rs ( note that I mangled the formatting a tad to my old-timey tastes and to see if it work :) )

Code:

# cat hello.rs



fn main() 

{

  // Print text to the console

  

  println!( "Hello World!" ) ;



    /*

    * does rust allow c-style comments ?

    *

    * yes, it does.

    *

    */

}



# rustc hello.rs

# ls -lart hello* 



-rw-rw-r--  1 konrad  users        188 Aug 26 07:26 hello.rs

-rwxrwxr-x  1 konrad  users    5381656 Aug 26 07:27 hello



# ./hello



Hello World!

Woo Hoo ! Hello yourself, rust !

Then last night Willy released an updated rust.SlacBuild also from Andrew Clemons which compiles rust much like I remember gcc compiled itself back in the early 1990's ( staged self-compiles ).

So I uninstalled my 'Thursday rust' and rebuilt it with Andrew's new SlackBuild this morning.

It worked fine:

Code:

# head -1 rust.SlackBuild-1.19.0.log && tail -1 rust.SlackBuild-1.19.0.log



rust.SlackBuild startup  at Sat Aug 26 06:42:38 CDT 2017

rust.SlackBuild complete at Sat Aug 26 07:06:58 CDT 2017 ... RetCode = 0

So I once again compiled and ran rust.rs

Code:

# cd /tmp/

# rustc rust.rs

# ./hello



Hello World!

And rust still works !

Anyhow, rust works for me. And if that's what it takes to build FireFox going forward and Pat and the Crew decide to include it in SlackWare 'TNG', I am more than OK with that !

Thanks to Everyone for the interesting discussion !

-- kjh

P.S. I did all this on my main Slackware64 14.2 + MultiLib Laptop

@ wigum: This personal attack is neither warranted nor deserved. You just don't know whom you are talking to. Darth Vader has been the developer of a Slackware derivative, so he certainly knows what he is talking about. He knows better than you how software is built and a distribution is managed. Beyond that, the vocabulary you use is not what we would expect, to put it nicely.

TLDR: please, leave us alone.

you can remove my post but darth vader is still an idiot

Didier Spaier

http://wigums.ddns.net/hold/

suck it

youre the one who doesnt know who you're talking to

read the bio too

Quote:

Originally Posted by wigums (Post 5752287)

you can remove my post but darth vader is still an idiot

I neither am allowed nor wish to remove anything here. I have just hit the Report button, and wrt your next post, your personal achievements, whatever they be, are not an excuse for insulting people, whoever they be.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Didier Spaier (Post 5752292)

you said he was a qualified developer. so i in turn gave my resume

http://wigums.ddns.net/hold/about.html

along with my latest project

http://wigums.ddns.net/hold

The personal attacks are not needed here at LQ, wigums.

Quote:

Originally Posted by wigums (Post 5752280)

http://wigums.ddns.net/mozilla-firef...4-x86_64-1.txz
took me like an hour?

Thanks you! You just demonstrate and confirm the very basis and claims of this thread, that there is nothing for us to be afraid of a Rust based Firefox. :D

Regarding of other words you dirt this thread, I will not respond, because I feel no need to contribute to an idiotic flame-war for nothing and to drag this fine thread into something that dirty.

You, man, now you infringed the laws ruling here, in the LinuxQuestions forums. That you will have to deal with the Sheriff's men, is your own business, not mine... ;)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Darth Vader (Post 5752301)

Didier Spaier and hitest, thanks for your help!

Like even the Landlord (jeremy) said, the users monitoring is the best way to fight against those who do not know how to discuss in a civilized manner. ;)

Thanks you! You just demonstrate and confirm the very basis and claims of this thread, that there is nothing for us to be afraid of a Rust based Firefox. :D

Regarding of other words you dirt this thread, I will not respond, because I feel no need to contribute to an idiotic flame-war for nothing and to drag this fine thread into something that dirty.

You, man, now you infringed the laws ruling here, in the LinuxQuestions forums. That you will have to deal with the Sheriff's men, is your own business, not mine... ;)

could care less. youre still an [removed] you attack everyone but when i say youre an idiot somehow im wrong?

Quote:

Originally Posted by wigums (Post 5752318)

could care less.

If you do not care about the forum rules, we will miss your face soon.

I tell you as one who happened to get six months to consider my language, before to be able to post something again. ;)

Quote:

Originally Posted by hitest (Post 5752300)

The personal attacks are not needed here at LQ, wigums.

this is exactly the point i wish to raise and apologies hitest its not directed towards you but you brought uo the point that needed brought up. the guys an [removed] insulting everyone all over the thread and its somehow acceptable but as soon as someone says stop no and dont they become the [removed]? its not ok in the grocery store. its not ok in walmart, and it most certainly is not ok on LQ for him to berate a belittle people the way he does. i didnt just start acting a fool. i acted in response to his inappropriate behaviour.

again, not directed at you specifically hitest but the thread in general

With all due honesty Darth Vader's posting style invites this kind of response. I would hope he would learn from this, but more likely it will just result in a purely reactionary response like some others have already shown...

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Please put an end to this exchange and get the thread back on track.