Hi Guix,
I have missed using the rust tools I use outside of Guix. Ripgrep was the first one I could build thanks to the work on the rust build system.
Of course, it required adding over 200 dependencies.
Some of these have cyclic dependencies, as you all know. What I understand is that the rust community is OK with including cyclic dependencies as test dependencies. I am actually seeing how useful that is. Consider the system tests in the guix repository. Certainly that would require including guix as a dependency to guix.
I also left the cargo inputs and dev inputs commented out just in case someone wants to put them back in the future and to give a sense of the topological order of the patches.
Having imported ripgrep some months ago, some of these dependencies will require updates, but I did not want to break the working version of ripgrep at the end of the line. Otherwise I have fixed the other lint errors and I have been using ripgrep for several months.
- John