Re: rustup & cargo

[Brett Gilio <brettg@posteo.net>]

Chris Marusich writes:

> Hi Brett!
>
> Welcome!  I'm also curious about the situation with Rust.  I'm 
> learning
> Rust because I find it interesting, and I use GuixSD, so here my 
> two
> interests (Rust and Guix) overlap.
>
> Brett Gilio <brettg@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> Hi all, I am curious about the status of providing rustup 
>> toolchain
>> management and cargo for guix. I work often in rust, and these 
>> tools
>> are
>> pretty essential. I might be interested in helping with the 
>> packaging
>> here, but I would like to know what the Guix community has on 
>> this so
>> far.
>
> I haven't done much with Rust yet, but I am able to compile 
> programs and
> run them using the Guix-installed Rust compiler.  I haven't 
> tried using
> rustup to install or upgrade Rust, though; I think the way to 
> install
> and upgrade Rust via Guix is to use Guix, not rustup, but I 
> could be
> mistaken.  I have no idea what the status of cargo is, but when 
> I built
> a project the other day, it successfully downloaded a bunch of 
> crates
> and built the code, so presumably it's working.
>
> If you search the email list, you'll find some other interesting
> discussions about Rust.  One problem we have is that Rust is not 
> yet
> fully bootstrapped, but that's somewhat orthogonal to using 
> Rust.
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=rust&submit=Search%21&idxname=guix-devel&max=20&result=normal&sort=score
>
> Glad to have you here!

Thank you, Chris! I, too, have been working with Guix's packaging 
of
Rust. However, what I wish was available was a nightly build of 
the rust
branch. I know it is likely possible to make a guile definition 
for
this, I just have not gotten to it yet. That was mostly my inquiry 
as to
using rustup.


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