Re: Ship pkgcheck

 I’m not entirely sure of the value of this being in TeX live, but given
the growing popularity of Rust, it’s worth investigating how difficult (not
very, I think) it would be to add Rust compilation into the build process.
Unlike C/C++ with the assortment of complications involved in running a
build (the whole autoconfig thing, make/Cmake/something else), everything
in Rust is handled with cargo which can even do things like cross-platform
builds fairly simply. I’ve switched my new development work to Rust simply
because building (and dependency management) is so much simpler.

-dh


On Aug 26, 2025 at 08:35:21, Norbert Preining <[email protected]> wrote:

> Would it be possible to ship https://ctan.org/pkg/pkgcheck in TeX Live?
>
>
> Rust script, not included in our build process. Not sure this can easily
> be done.
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> Best regards
>
> Norbert
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