Re: Inquiry regarding contributing a Rust-based package to TeX Live

Hi Zeping,

On Thu, 2026-03-05 at 19:41 +0800, Zeping Lee wrote:
> I’ve checked the contribution guidelines of TeX Live, but they mostly focus on
> C/C++ for binaries (https://www.tug.org/texlive/pkgcontrib.html). Since Citum
> is written in Rust, I would like to ask: Does TeX Live accept a package that
> contains a library written in Rust?

Any compiled programs (aside from a few exceptions) in TeX Live need to
be integrated into the TL build system, which uses autotools. We have
nothing against Rust, but (as far as I'm aware) none of the TL
developers are very familiar with it. So if you're able to figure out
how to integrate Citum into our build system, then we'll likely be able
to include it; otherwise, we probably won't be able to.

Thanks,
-- Max