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[PATCH] staging gnu: Add more tools to rust outputs.

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From: John Soo <jsoo1 <at> asu.edu>
To: Jakub Kądziołka <kuba <at> kadziolka.net>
Cc: 46162 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#46162: [PATCH] staging gnu: Add more tools to rust outputs.
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 08:40:20 -0800

Hi Jakub,

Jakub Kądziołka <kuba <at> kadziolka.net> writes:

> I don't think tools beyond rustc and cargo should be included in the
> main rust package, as this causes them to be built in each step of the
> bootstrap. I believe a better approach would be to define separate
> packages for them.

Yeah that would make sense. Have we explored any of the incremental or
--keep-stage options to speedup the bootstrap?

> We would have something like
>
>  ;; TODO(staging): Bump this variable to the latest packaged rust.
>  (define-public rust rust-1.45)
>
> +(define-public rust-for-tools rust-1.50)
>
> I'm not sure if rustbuild can be convinced to not build the compiler
> itself when the version used for the build is the same as the sources'.
> If so, defining packages for each tool shouldn't need any guix-side
> tricks.

Even if it did build the compiler for each tool it may not be a problem
if only the last 3 versions had the tools available (for instance).

> Otherwise, I would define a single rust-tools package with
> (outputs '("rustfmt" "clippy" ...)). Perhaps it would help with UX if
> rust-tools itself was hidden, and instead the tools would be exposed
> with simple packages that expose each tool separately, with a symlink or
> similar.

I could see this working nicely.  I think this is just more evidence for
language-environment related documentation.

> I'll see if I can find some time to try this out this week.

Thanks! That would be helpful. It is really painful to have all these
unmerged patches to rust.

Kindly,

John

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