Re: Rust

[Eric Le Bihan <eric.le.bihan.dev@free.fr>]

Hi!

Le Sun, 4 Sep 2016 16:50:48 +0200,
David Craven <david@craven.ch> a écrit :

> > IIUC, to provide a Guix package for Cargo, the following should be
> > done:  
> 
> > 1. write a crate importer.
> > 2. list all the crates needed by Cargo to build itself.
> > 3. package each crate with the importer.
> > 4. add a Cargo package which depends on the newly-imported crates
> > and uses a binary version of Cargo to bootstrap itself (though this
> > is not the best option in terms of auditing/reproducibility).  
> 
> Have you made any progress on this? =)

Unfortunately no. Bandwith is a little bit low ATM :-(

I sent an updated version of the Rust package, taking into account the
suggestions from the original version.

> FYI I also think that that's the best course of action. I remember
> dealing with non gnu-build-system packages in nixos was a bit of a
> pain, so I was biased against the importer thing. I think guix does a
> better job at it...
> 
> To build the crates needed to build cargo a good idea is probably to
> have rust-build-system take a #:cargo and a #:rustc package. Then you
> can pass the binary versions for bootstrapping cargo.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Best regards, 

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ELB