Rust website/docs wanted features & bugfixes

[ojeda]

Features that we would like to see

Required (we almost certainly want them)

Nice to have (not critical, we could workaround if needed, etc.)

Low priority (we will likely not use them in the end)

Done (stabilized, fixed, not needed anymore, etc.)

• Show the standalone installers for earlier releases.
  • Useful for developers and users requiring older versions for kernel compilation purposes.
  • Issue: Show the standalone installers for earlier releases (FIXME) rust-lang/rust-forge#676.
  • PR: Add Archive of Rust Stable Standalone Installers rust-lang/rust-forge#733.

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Bugs that we would like to see fixed

Required (we almost certainly want them)

Nice to have (probably not critical, we could workaround if needed, etc.)

Low priority (we will likely not use them in the end)

Done (stabilized, fixed, or not needed anymore, etc.)

• Slightly different rustup instructions compared to rust-lang.org's Install page.

  • Useful for giving a single link in our Quick Start guide.
  • Issue: Slightly different rustup instructions compared to rust-lang.org's Install page rust-lang/rust-forge#684.
  • PR: Use installation instruction with rustup as recommended in forge and rustup rust-lang/www.rust-lang.org#1823.
  • PR: update installation methods to use TLS v1.2 rust-lang/rust-forge#688.
  • PR: Update installation methods to use TLS v1.2 rust-lang/rustup#3385.

• Fix duplicate Rust 1.8.0 in the archive stable version installers page.

  • PR: Deduplicate entries in the archive of stable standalone installers rust-lang/rust-forge#770.

[microcassidy]

https://static.rust-lang.org/dist/YYYY-MM-DD/

issue

[ojeda]

@xuky76 What do you mean? That URLs like that could be used to show the table?

[yerke]

@ojeda do you need standalone installers for stable versions earlier than 1.8? I imagine not, right?
All others are now covered in https://forge.rust-lang.org/infra/archive-stable-version-installers.html

[ojeda]

Thanks for asking!

Yeah, Rust for Linux does not need them. We are more than happy with Rust 1.62.0 and later, since that is the version that the oldest supported LTS that has Rust (which was also the first).

Though perhaps other people/project could perhaps want them for historical reasons, e.g. Compiler Explorer currently has all major versions since 1.0.0 to play with.

[ojeda]

@yerke By the way, I just noticed the page contains Rust 1.8.0 twice.

[yerke]

@ojeda oh, thanks for catching it.

[ojeda]

My pleasure!

[yerke]

@ojeda The issue with the duplicate versions on https://forge.rust-lang.org/infra/archive-stable-version-installers.html was fixed in rust-lang/rust-forge#770.

[ojeda]

Thanks! Added above for reference. I see you are also adding even pre-1.8.0 versions -- we don't need anything that old anyway, but thanks for that too!

[yerke]

PR to add pre-1.8.0 versions is merged. Now you see all historical stable Rust versions on https://forge.rust-lang.org/infra/archive-stable-version-installers.html.

[ojeda]

Thanks!