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Remove Rust dependency from tools #89

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The rollup-http tool in our tools repository is currently implemented in Rust. This presents two challenges:

  1. Packaging requires compilation in an emulated riscv64 environment, taking hours to complete. While cross-compilation works for development, it's incompatible with upstream packaging requirements for Ubuntu and Alpine Linux.
  2. Alpine Linux classifies Rust as Tier 2 support, making its stability questionable in Alpine Linux.
  3. It is inconvenient for the Machine unit to maintain projects implemented in different languages, since the majority of the Machine unit work is in C++.

Proposed Solutions

To eliminate Rust dependencies from the tools repository, we could:

  1. Reimplement rollup-http in C++, maintaining it within the tools repository
  2. Migrate rollup-http out of the tools repository and provide an alternative solution, reducing the emulator team maintenance scope
  3. Drop rollup-http in favor of libcmt use.

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