From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Ivan Petkov <ivanppetkov@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Current state of cargo-build-system
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 11:50:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878szbhclx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0FA91CF1-5040-4175-9347-7FEF74CCD725@gmail.com> (Ivan Petkov's message of "Sun, 20 Jan 2019 16:11:58 -0800")
Hello Ivan,
Ivan Petkov <ivanppetkov@gmail.com> 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 <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.
> 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.
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’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-23 10:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-21 0:11 Current state of cargo-build-system Ivan Petkov
2019-01-23 10:50 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2019-01-23 11:46 ` ng0
2019-01-23 17:10 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-01-25 23:57 ` Ivan Petkov
2019-01-27 23:13 ` Ivan Petkov
2019-01-28 8:44 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-28 16:23 ` Ivan Petkov
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