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Time for your daily dose of #RustLang complaints. Yep, the ecosystem is doing great.
#UV depends on tokio-tar library. Tokio-tar is broken on #PowerPC, doesn't have a bug tracker (!) and seems to be quite dead, with a bunch of PRs ignored since 2022 (last activity mid-2023). Nevertheless, I've filed a PR to fix PowerPC, with little hope that it'll be merged, released and that we could get UV working on PowerPC.
On top of that, it seems that tokio-tar was forked in early 2021 from async-tar. It doesn't seem to have synced the few commits from 2021, and async-tar is dead since late 2021. But at least it has a bug tracker to keep track of how dead it is.
Rewriting stuff in Rust is great. Maintaining it afterwards for the sake of reverse dependencies isn't.
@mgorny
Sorry if it's a off-topic, but is there a fork of ring crate that works on PowerPC? Some time ago I've managed to hack the IBM's one — the one that adds support for Little-Endian PowerPC64, so it can be built on 32-bit PowerPC, but it was still failing most tests and was unusable. Are there any others?
@m0xee, I don't really know. I've hard that ring finally started to support more platforms, but I don't know if that includes ppc. That said, looks like people are moving away from ring, e.g. rustls uses aws-lc-rs by default these days.