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Rust devs push back as Serde project ships precompiled binaries (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 1 year ago by ruffsl to c/rust
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's a great answer - thanks. I agree that communication is the first thing to try. Realistically a fork would just result in multiple versions of the same thing kicking around, including the binary that worries people.

Edit: Seems like diplomacy worked. The developer is removing the precompiled binary:

https://github.com/serde-rs/serde/releases/tag/v1.0.184