GNU bug report logs - #59214
[PATCH] Alternate rust-analyzer command added

Previous Next

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Pankaj Jangid <pankaj <at> codeisgreat.org>
To: "M. Ian Graham" <hello+emacs <at> miangraham.com>
Cc: 59214 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#59214: [PATCH] Alternate rust-analyzer command added
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2022 23:50:27 +0530

"M. Ian Graham" <hello+emacs <at> miangraham.com> writes:

> I just noticed this quote from the announcement at https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/09/22/Rust-1.64.0.html#rust-analyzer-is-now-available-via-rustup :
>
>> At this time, to run the rustup-installed version, you need to invoke it this way:
>> rustup run stable rust-analyzer
>> The next release of rustup will provide a built-in proxy so that running the executable rust-analyzer will launch the appropriate version.
>
> So the current situation is temporary. A rustup-side fix is
> coming. Once it arrives, the right answer--even for rustup users--will
> be "just add what you want to PATH and eglot will defer to your
> environment." Rustup will do this for them automatically, for the rust
> version of their preference, and eglot will just work.
>
> In the meantime, as is, rustup users have the option of symlinking
> rust-analyzer into .cargo/bin or adding its location directly to
> PATH. Anyone not comfortable doing this is also probably not running
> emacs from master, so they're unlikely to benefit from a short-term
> elisp fix until the problem goes away. And if emacs adds code
> depending on rustup, subsequently removing what should theoretically
> be a temporary fix will in practice break users remaining on older
> rustup versions.
>
> Unless I'm misunderstanding the situation above or something has
> changed since the announcement, to me it seems prudent to wait on
> rustup's fix and avoid letting emacs develop an opinion about the
> installation method or version details of external components.

Agree. Then we just wait for the next release of `rustup'. Anyway that
will happen before the next release of Emacs. So this patch is not
required.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.