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From: Eric Le Bihan <eric.le.bihan.dev@free.fr>
Subject: Re: Rust
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 08:04:56 +0200
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To: David Craven <david@craven.ch>
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Hi!

Le Sun, 4 Sep 2016 16:50:48 +0200,
David Craven <david@craven.ch> a =C3=A9crit :

> > IIUC, to provide a Guix package for Cargo, the following should be
> > done: =20
>=20
> > 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). =20
>=20
> Have you made any progress on this? =3D)

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...
>=20
> 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,=20

--=20
ELB