python-cryptography >= 3.4.0 and Rust

[Marco Atzeri]

On 04.02.2022 16:28, Allen Hewes wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----

>>>
>>> Welp, then the wheels came off. I am assuming that Cygwin's python-
>> cryptography is still at 3.3.2 b/c of this Rust issue?
>>>
>>
>> Hi Allen,
>> it is correct. I released the last version that was still on C
>>
> 
> It's still on C but the authors have been adding new features in Rust. They are using the Python Rust API bridge for the integration between the two.
> 

It seems not an optional feature, without a Rust compiler it can not
be built

>>> Rust is making more in-roads into software I use frequently or like to use. Is
>> there any efforts or discussions about getting Rust able to target Cygwin?
>>
>> Not that I aware of.
>> We have already problem to update clang that is already behind.
>>
> 
> Many of the shiny new sysadmin/sysutils are written in Rust or Go.
> 
> The reason why I brought up python cryptography and Cygwin is that the current version of python cryptography doesn't support OpenSSL 3 (AFAIK). Only the most recent cryptography does. At some point in the future, this will have to be addressed, wouldn't it (IMHO)? Python cryptography is fundamental in the Python ecosystem. Pythonistas who use Cygwin will need an update to cryptography. How can this happen?

   "Somebody Has To Do It"  https://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI

but I do not volounteer ...

>> Rust and Go are purely wish, they both requires specific expertize and time.
>>
> 
> ...except for then those languages make in-roads into the bits/ecosystem that Cygwin has packaged/supported (for a long time in some cases). From what I can tell, these ecosystems think WSL/WSL2 is their "best effort" for Linux-y (or POSIX) on Windows.
> 
>> Feel free to work on it
> 
> Based on the conversation in rigrep (a Rust grepper), it sounds like it's a large amount of work that would not be accepted/entertained by upstream:
> https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/269

in the old past we had some discussion on cmake but finally
upstream accepted our efforts.

> /allen
> 

Regards
Marco