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From: Nicolas Graves via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Cc: maximedevos@telenet.be
Subject: rust-build-system from antioxidant
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2023 20:02:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v8g5g2t1.fsf@ngraves.fr> (raw)


A few months ago, Maxime Devos worked on a new rust-build-system to
handle a few issues we were experiencing with cargo (see discussions on
antioxidant in guix-devel).

A month ago, we discussed about the possibility of the integration in
core guix, and the required steps. Maxime and I had a different
approach. Maxime highlighted the possibility to make a smooth transition
but once that would require many gradual changes and deprecation. My
approach was that since we'll have to eventually migrate all packages to
rust-build-system, and since we can freeze all former rust packages in
an archive channel, I would be clearer to make the transition at once.

Took me quite some time from there, but thanks to the huge work of
Maxime and a few rust patches, I've managed to compile ripgrep properly,
along with more than 350 packages which represent all transitive inputs
and native-inputs. It's basically a package-level copy of Maxime's work
on antioxidant, with more focus on "bootstrapping" properly (very few
packages are missing a test phase), and some work to cut down the number
of dependencies.

It's only a step, but a good one to continue the discussion about the
integration of this build-system (and the way it should be integrated).

You can find it in an archive right here for a 5 days (I would rather
not create a new 8 Gb repo online for 100 kb transferred, sorry). 

https://drop.chapril.org/download/696f37be60f243fd/#-j9Nt_xiN9eUBCsHfMDHig

If we manage to continue this to reach 100% builds like the antioxidant
channel, we could indeed switch in one big commit. The workspace
build-system is not included yet.

-- 
Best regards,
Nicolas Graves


             reply	other threads:[~2023-06-02 18:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-02 18:02 Nicolas Graves via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution. [this message]
2023-06-08 17:55 ` rust-build-system from antioxidant Maxime Devos
2023-06-12  1:17   ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-06-12 10:10     ` Maxime Devos
2023-06-12 13:05       ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-06-14 13:02         ` Maxime Devos
2023-07-02 20:12       ` Overruling and blocking Ludovic Courtès
2023-06-12 15:08     ` rust-build-system from antioxidant Vagrant Cascadian
2023-06-12 16:34       ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2023-06-16 13:53         ` Nicolas Graves via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2023-06-17  0:51           ` Maxim Cournoyer

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