From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ivan Petkov <ivanppetkov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Current state of cargo-build-system
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 08:23:25 -0800
Message-ID: <4D2E6E9C-D22D-4843-B51B-1B6C7FD9A538@gmail.com>
References: <0FA91CF1-5040-4175-9347-7FEF74CCD725@gmail.com>
	<20190123181000.6c5fc532@scratchpost.org>
	<2E175E19-40C4-4954-A282-EE31C77D7A5D@gmail.com>
	<87y375qigr.fsf@elephly.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 11.5 \(3445.9.1\))
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Return-path: <guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org>
Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:42136)
	by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71)
	(envelope-from <ivanppetkov@gmail.com>) id 1go9hF-0007RJ-O4
	for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2019 11:23:42 -0500
Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71)
	(envelope-from <ivanppetkov@gmail.com>) id 1go9hF-0005Rl-0N
	for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2019 11:23:41 -0500
Received: from mail-pg1-x52d.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::52d]:40681)
	by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16)
	(Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <ivanppetkov@gmail.com>)
	id 1go9hC-0005Dz-PA
	for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2019 11:23:38 -0500
Received: by mail-pg1-x52d.google.com with SMTP id z10so7411496pgp.7
	for <guix-devel@gnu.org>; Mon, 28 Jan 2019 08:23:31 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <87y375qigr.fsf@elephly.net>
List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution."
	<guix-devel.gnu.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/options/guix-devel>,
	<mailto:guix-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/>
List-Post: <mailto:guix-devel@gnu.org>
List-Help: <mailto:guix-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guix-devel>,
	<mailto:guix-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=subscribe>
Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org
Sender: "Guix-devel" <guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org


> On Jan 28, 2019, at 12:44 AM, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> =
wrote:
>=20
> Outputs are only generated when building the package.
>=20
> If all you need is the source code, however, you can use =
(package-source
> the-package) and use the resulting value as an input to another =
package.

Thanks Ricardo, I think this is what I was looking for!

In the case of cargo, I think it we still need to processes the input =
tarball into
the right format to get vendored correctly, but the build system should =
know enough
about how to perform the vendoring steps anyway, so this is a step in =
the right direction.

=E2=80=94Ivan=