> IIUC, to provide a Guix package for Cargo, the following should be done:
> 1. write a crate importer. > 2. list all the crates needed by Cargo to build itself. > 3. package each crate with the importer. > 4. add a Cargo package which depends on the newly-imported crates and > uses a binary version of Cargo to bootstrap itself (though this is not > the best option in terms of auditing/reproducibility). Have you made any progress on this? =) FYI I also think that that's the best course of action. I remember dealing with non gnu-build-system packages in nixos was a bit of a pain, so I was biased against the importer thing. I think guix does a better job at it... To build the crates needed to build cargo a good idea is probably to have rust-build-system take a #:cargo and a #:rustc package. Then you can pass the binary versions for bootstrapping cargo.
