Zig's been Out-Of-Date for a while

kinker31 · 2025-09-08 05:21:20

As the subject says, the package for Zig's been flagged out-of-date for about a month, its last update all the way back in June 2025.
This usually wouldn't concern me too much, but the package I use for my display manager, ly-git, expects the most recent version of Zig to build properly. (Or at least a version past 0.14, as far as I can tell.)
While it works fine enough in its current state, I don't know how longer my current version of ly-git's going to stay good enough to use.
I probably could manually modify the CMake file and make it work that way, but I think that also might be a security risk, or something similar.

Last edited by kinker31 (2025-09-08 05:22:10)

gromit · 2025-09-08 07:45:45

Updating the zig ecosystem is not a simple task AFAIU as it co-depends on (often newer) LLVM features and the like. Feel free to try updating the stack locally though and help the packagers if you find any solutions to it. Also we have ly in the repos, so you don't need to rely on ly-git

kinker31 · 2025-09-08 07:50:06

gromit wrote:

[...]Also we have ly in the repos, so you don't need to rely on ly-git

Good point, though I do also like the nature of a fully rolling-release distro. Admittedly a bit risky than it needs to be, but that's what cutting edge's for, no?

gromit · 2025-09-08 07:53:45

Sure, it's your system, you can trash it however you want

kinker31 · 2025-10-06 16:02:45

A very, very late update to the initial problem I had: The updated zig now updates ly-git... but it lags horribly so it's back to main-branch ly for me.

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#1 2025-09-08 05:21:20

Zig's been Out-Of-Date for a while

#2 2025-09-08 07:45:45

Re: Zig's been Out-Of-Date for a while

#3 2025-09-08 07:50:06

Re: Zig's been Out-Of-Date for a while

#4 2025-09-08 07:53:45

Re: Zig's been Out-Of-Date for a while

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Re: Zig's been Out-Of-Date for a while

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