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On 2025-09-10 16:39, Randall S. Becker via Cygwin wrote:
> On September 10, 2025 6:30 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
>> On 2025-09-09 10:29, ASSI via Cygwin wrote:
>>> Andrew Schulman via Cygwin writes:
>>>> On Tue, 9 Sep 2025 10:23:13 +0200, Mark Liam Brown via Cygwin wrote:
>>>>> Since git has decided to EOL itself by a switch to RUST (which poses
>>>>> a chicken and egg problem for bootstrapping, among other technical,
>>>>> political and licensing issues),
>>
>> What appear to be the remaining licensing and political issues?
>>
>>>> For those of us who aren't in the know, could you please provide some
>>>> links to git's plans and what the issues are? A search on "git rust"
>>>> turns up a lot of stuff but it's hard to know what's relevant.
>>
>>> TL;DR: This did not happen (not yet anyway) and it won't happen in the
>>> near future either.
>>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250904-b4-pks-rust-breaking-change-v1-0-
>>> 3af1d25e0be9@pks.im/
>> I consider 2026H2 - a year - pretty near, with possibly another year and a half of
>> security patches, giving us 1-2.5 years, realistically 1.5 years to decide whether we
>> could get rust working, or should migrate to a git successor.
> 
> Unfortunately for the rest of us non-Rust people, successors appear to be written
> In Rust also. This does not make me feel good about the future of DVCS systems.

Especially when people seem to be reinventing the wheel rewriting existing code 
in this decade's systems programming language:

	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Systems_programming_languages

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retrancher  but when there is no more to cut
                                 -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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