From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ng0@n0.is Subject: Re: Current state of cargo-build-system Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 11:46:54 +0000 Message-ID: <20190123114654.5n6qffsepp26lim4@uptimegirl.lan> References: <0FA91CF1-5040-4175-9347-7FEF74CCD725@gmail.com> <878szbhclx.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:34349) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gmGzt-0007A8-1z for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 06:47:10 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gmGzs-0005e6-6j for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 06:47:09 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <878szbhclx.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Ludovic Courts transcribed 1.9K bytes: > Hello Ivan, > > Ivan Petkov skribis: > > > I'm new to both Guix and Guile/Scheme and decided to get my feet wet by > > attempting to package a non-trivial Rust crate into Guix. > > Cool, thanks for getting in touch! > > > This seems like something others have tried before me with varying degrees of > > success (I found this thread from a few years ago which doesn't seem to have > > resolved in any way https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-01/msg00306.html ). > > I ran into a host of issues myself, but I was able to prototype some changes > > which allowed me to make some progress. Happy to keep hacking on this, but > > ultimately I need some insight/guidance on the proper ways to build this out in > > Guix :) > > I think Danny and maybe ng0 (Cc’d) may be those the most familiar with > Rust in Guix. Not really. I know there were some tickets and bugs/features left to be worked on, but that's about it. Other people took over work, and I'm mostly involved in other projects now (pkgsrc, GNUnet, TALER admin, university, my package manager work, etc). But I can try to answer questions. > > But before I propose any new changes, I wanted to check, what is the current > > state cargo/crates in Guix from a community perspective? > > > > Are there any philosophical or technical blockers that preclude pulling in > > packages from crates.io, or is it just a matter of chipping away at the problem? > > I don’t think there are any “philosophical” blockers: as long as this is > free software, which I believe is the case for most packages on > crates.io, there shouldn’t be any problems. > > As for the technical issues, I don’t know. I remember David Craven, who > wrote ‘guix import crate’, didn’t do a mass import back then, but then > the ‘rust’ package in Guix was also nascent at the time so perhaps there > were other problems that have been resolved since then. Yeah, I haven't tried re-importing my rust packages tree. Maybe it's better now for a fraction of those. > Anyway, I think you can go ahead and start experimenting, adding new > packages, etc. Let us know how it goes, and do ping Danny and ng0 as > needed! :-) > > Thanks, > Ludo’. >