On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 16:30:08 +0800, Hilton Chain wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 16:07:59 +0800, > Efraim Flashner wrote: > > > > [1 <text/plain; utf-8 (quoted-printable)>] > > +CC Steve, new(ish) rust-team member > > > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2025 at 02:04:02PM +0800, Hilton Chain wrote: > > > I have made the following changes (currently locally): > > > - New procedure ‘cargo-inputs’. > > > > > > (cargo-inputs NAME) returns a copy of (@ (gnu packages rust-crates) > > > NAME-cargo-inputs), with #f removed and symbols resolved to (@ (gnu > > > packages > > > rust-sources) SYMBOL). Both modules can be configured via keyword > > > arguments. > > > > > > This eliminates the need to modify *-cargo-inputs manually. > > > > Is it possible to add the other more involved cargo inputs like > > rust-ring to this list or would that add too much of a burden? > > For example, currently in my rust-crates.scm, ‘atuin-cargo-inputs’ has a > ‘rust-ring-0.17.14’ element, which is defined as a symbol ‘'rust-ring-0.17’, > then (cargo-inputs 'atuin) will resolve this symbol to ‘rust-ring-0.17’ > variable > defined in rust-sources.scm. We won't need to add ‘rust-ring-0.17’ to atuin's > inputs then. > > > > - Importer: Insert *-cargo-inputs alphabetically too. > > > > Yay! > > > > > I'll try to keep cargo-build-system compatible with current packages. > > > > > > Draft migration path: > > > 1. Import dependencies to (gnu packages rust-crates) and copy needed > > > dependencies to (gnu packages rust-sources). > > > 2. Remove #:cargo-inputs of applications, refine their definitions and > > > relocate > > > them to categorized modules. > > > 3. Remove all crates-* modules. > > > > It seems to me that 2 and 3 can happen later as necessary, that 1 is the > > most important part. Especially since I think we'd do well to have the > > mixed build-system packages not be cargo-build-system but their other > > build-system instead. > > I agree, so I'll make the changes compatible with current packages.
(Resent to have proper To: and Cc:, not sure why my MUA is not good at replying to Efraim's mail)
