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		charrondev on Dec 10, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The future of Python build systems and Gentoo I’m guessing the cargo binary has a TOML parser in it. As long as cargo itself doesn’t need TOML support to build that should be fine.

veber-alex on Dec 10, 2021 [–]

cargo itself does need TOML support to build because cargo itself is a Rust crate [0].

But it's not a problem because you build a new version of cargo with an older version of cargo that of course can parse TOML.

[0] https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/blob/master/Cargo.toml

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