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 <bre...@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.
--
Brett M. Gilio
Free Software Foundation, Member
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