[Commented On] D12424: rust: upgrade zstd from 0.5.3 to 0.11.1

[indygreg (Gregory Szorc)]

indygreg added a comment.


  I think it is pretty ridiculous that Linux distributions artificially constrain the forward progress of entire language ecosystems by moving at a glacial pace. Python version compatibility is already problematic for Mercurial and now we're throwing Rust into the mix. And that is arguably worse since Python does major releases once per year versus Rust's 6 week release cadence.
  
  Given that Rust is an optional dependency for Mercurial, I'd like to think there is some room to consider more aggressively upgrading the minimal supported Rust version. If enough projects start doing this, I suspect the distros will eventually realize their current practices aren't in the best interests of their end-users and they'll come around to supporting more modern Rust so they can package the applications their users demand.

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