From: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>
To: Paul Alesius <paul@unnservice.com>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Packaging rust-analyzer is not necessary.
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2022 16:30:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a098b294d1149bcadc4bf713897c530771bfd927.camel@telenet.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL8jUGWWt4HpOXpaLfZG-HSUxBXVgULBX8guAjkRAZ=TwZay7A@mail.gmail.com>
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Paul Alesius schreef op vr 25-03-2022 om 09:05 [+0100]:
> I've tried to produce a patch for the latest version, and it has
> probably hundreds of dependencies that need to be updated.
Even if you didn't succeed at updating _all_ dependencies, if you
have patches for some of them, please send them. It will help people
in the future with updating rust-analyzer or other rust packages.
And is it necessary to update _all_ dependencies? For comparison,
graphical applications usually compile just fine even if gtk+ or glibc
are somewhat old.
> In addition to that, rust-analyzer is under heavy development and
> there is a release every month. Many people will want to use the
> nightly version too.
For many people, a vaguely recent-ish version would be sufficient. At
least, that's the case for C, GCC and Clang.
> As long as there is rust and rust-cargo in Guix, then rust-analyzer
> can be easily compiled and installed from git with "cargo xtask
> install --server" using the rust-cargo system.
>
> I'd suggest that a Guix package for rust-analyzer is not needed,
> especially due to the excessive time required to update its package
> definition and all of the vendored dependency crates,
What is the point of a distribution if it not distributing packages?
Removing a package for being ~two months old and pointing users to
Rust's equivalent of "curl ... | bash -" instead seems a disservice to
users to me.
If I just do ‘cargo xtask install --server", how do I know if it isn't
bundling anything or containing malware? Modifying the source code
seems also non-trivial, compared to Guix where one can do things like
--with-patch. What about statelessness, reproducibility, time-
machine, the SWH fallback and sharing substitutes on the local network?
It might be possible to do "cargo xtask install --server", but many
advantages of Guix would be lost.
> and focus should instead be on rust and rust-cargo.
Indeed, e.g. it would be nice to figure out how to eliminate #:skip-
build?, replace #:cargo-inputs by regular inputs, figure out how to
stop having to package multiple versions of the same package.
Greetings,
Maxime.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-26 15:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-25 8:05 Packaging rust-analyzer is not necessary Paul Alesius
2022-03-26 15:30 ` Maxime Devos [this message]
2022-03-26 16:33 ` John Soo
2022-05-09 19:06 ` Maxime Devos
2022-03-28 23:50 ` Improving importers best investment for growing gnu/packages/ Brendan Tildesley
2022-03-29 9:01 ` Maxime Devos
2022-03-29 10:30 ` Brendan Tildesley
2022-03-29 19:03 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-05-02 9:19 ` zimoun
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