When to add rust packages?

When to add rust packages?

[John Soo]

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Hi Guix,

I packaged a number of Rust programs that I use everyday (ripgrep,
alacritty) or I found useful when learning Rust (racer).  With the
instability of the rust build system and package definition they are a lot
to maintain. I would love to send patches for them but I don't want to
burden you all with the maintenance of the packages. When do you think
would be the best time to send patches?

Thanks!

John

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Re: When to add rust packages?

[ng0]

Hi,

I would send them as soon as you think they are usable,
the "burden" is shared between people who are interested
and work on maintaining them - you, or anyone else.

No need to feel like it would be a burden to anyone.

Re: When to add rust packages?

[John Soo]

Thanks,

I’ll be sending some patches as soon as I can. As you all know, rust packages have a lot of dependencies so it could take some time. 

- John

Re: When to add rust packages?

[Efraim Flashner]

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On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 02:57:00PM +0000, John Soo wrote:
> Hi Guix,
> 
> I packaged a number of Rust programs that I use everyday (ripgrep,
> alacritty) or I found useful when learning Rust (racer).  With the
> instability of the rust build system and package definition they are a lot
> to maintain. I would love to send patches for them but I don't want to
> burden you all with the maintenance of the packages. When do you think
> would be the best time to send patches?
> 

Also once you send them we have more packages to test out changes to the
rust system against.

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Re: When to add rust packages?

[John Soo]

Hi all,

I submitted my patches this morning in #38640.  Thanks for the continued work on the rust build system.  I like rust tools quite a lot.

- John