Hi Dr. Nic,

 

thanks for your reply and the links shared to the new buildpacks and the tutorial. As I’d like to use the buildpack within an enterprise context such custom buildpack would be a good starting point, but the ultimate goal would be to get it listed as part of this: https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/buildpacks/system-buildpacks.html

 

If I get you right, the CF core team/paketo team might be the right contacts to talk to about this topic to get a Rust buildpack eventually a core/system buildpack? Are you able to share some contact details to start the communication with the right audience straight away?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

BR

André

 

From: <cf-dev@...> on behalf of Dr Nic Williams <drnicwilliams@...>
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Date: Sunday, 9. May 2021 at 00:01
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Subject: Re: [cf-dev] On boarding of a new CF system build pack for Rust

 

Skipping the question of “core buildpacks” which is a good one but I can’t answer it.

 

I can point you to two paths for authoring Buildpacks, depending on which CF your using.

 

Newer CF/kubernetes CF uses Paketo buildpacks 

https://paketo.io/ which are implementations of the Cloud Native Buildpacks project https://buildpacks.io — the latter page has a tutorial for creating a buildpack; and the former is a collection of buildpacks. If you want your Rust buildpack to be “core” one day, cargo cult the core team/paketo team’s buildpacks rather than implement yours from scratch.

 

If you’re on an older CF, and using the older buildpacks then yes you can create a Rust buildpack, but it will never be included in “core” — the core team/paketo team is solely working on the new set of buildpakcs above. I wrote some tutorials for creating the older buildpacks; but I hesitate to recommend them since they are “the old way” :)

 

Dr Nic

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