Re: rust: Crate Dependencies

[ng0 <ng0@libertad.pw>]

David Craven <david@craven.ch> writes:

>> Same here for libc crate after the update, but I guess that's
>> because cargo is currently packaged and used from the bootstrap
>> rust, which is dated one version before the actual rustc you can
>> use now, so 0.13.0 cargo and 0.14.0 rustc.
>
> I submitted some experimental patches to the ML which fix this.

Thanks, I will try them out next week.

> Since you have I assume a web application that is written in rust, and
> you want to deploy it using guixsd, I think that vendoring the
> dependencies like the example cargo package is what you should do. The
> goal of using guixsd is fixing the deployment problem. If you vendor
> your dependencies and deploy your application like the example cargo
> package you should get an environment that is controlled 100% by your
> company. Would be awesome to see some real commercial webapps deployed
> using guixsd!

I don't really get the "vendoring" term, but I will when I look
at the cargo package and its source.
To give context to my packaging, it is for the current secushare
(see secushare.org or its .onion) prototype. This is not a web
application (I understand web application as something which runs
just in the browser), it's an extendable application using GNUnet
and PSYC2, more or less a social network (and more).

If I remember correctly, we do not bundle and everything which
might currently be bundled is because of rusts limitations in
some parts. And even then, this is nothing intended to be
packaged publicly at the present state ("prototype"), but what I
do work on this will get integrated into GuixSD (secushare+gnunet
live-system).
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