Bug#1041463: ITP: rust-wasmtime -- cross-platform engine for running WebAssembly programs

[Faidon Liambotis <paravoid@debian.org>]

On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 06:41:54PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > > This is a pseudo-ITP: The source package is already maintained for the
> > > subset covering core Cranelift crates, since they are part of same
> > > monorepo. The intent tracked here is extending that source package to
> > > provide binary packages librust-wasmtime* which involves additional
> > > dependencies unneeded for Cranelift.
> > 
> > I'm not sure what you mean by that -- what is already maintained? 
> 
> Whoops, I had it in mind but evidently forgot to mention it: I mean the
> packaging effort tracked as ITP bug#1041434 (and now in NEW queue).

Ah! It makes sense now, thanks :)

> > Also, are you planning to package wasmtime, as in the CLI, itself? I
> > believe this exists on the same upstream/source tree as the language
> > bindings that you're proposing here?
> 
> I mean both the Rust crates and the command-line tool.
> 
> You are right, both are part of same monorepo.

Awesome!

> > > Please shout if there is need for wasmtime, and especially if there is
> > > interest in helping get the needed dependencies packaged.
> > 
> > I don't have the bandwidth to help packaging wasmtime. However, I do
> > maintain another popular WebAssembly runtime, WasmEdge, and last year I
> > contributed a few changes to the Debian LLVM packages
> > (src:llvm-project-14 and friends) with regards to WebAssembly support,
> > and so you could say I'm interested with helping in bringing more parts
> > of the WebAssembly ecosystem in Debian :) I'm also interested in
> > opportunities to help each other, and in the relevant packages working
> > well with each other and/or providing a unified experience. Let me know
> > if you can think of any such ways.
> 
> I don't have a special interest in WebAssembly (yet) - my packaging
> efforts here is targeted packaging of swt (bug#991761).  That work also
> involves packaging (again only a subset of crates initially for) wasmer.

Wasmer too? That's even better :)

Good luck!

Faidon