Re: rust crates in packages

[Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>]

Yes please! Not having a project-specific DIST_SUBDIR is desirable. I
spent some time on this for Go modules.

On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 3:32 PM Nikita Gillmann <nikita%n0.is@localhost> wrote:
>
> Tobias Nygren transcribed 0.8K bytes:
> > On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 14:13:35 +0200
> > Nikita Gillmann <nikita%n0.is@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am looking at some Rust packages I want to move from wip to pkgsrc
> > > soon, and it seems the way I do it sometimes (all the time?) is not
> > > really disk space friendly. The dependency crates could as well be
> > > thrown into the distfiles dir and not using project subdirs, as they all
> > > come from the same place.
> > >
> > > Any objections to this? (and maybe I should start documenting packaging
> > > rust packages eventually, some mk snippets left to be tested)
> >
> > Yes, we should do that. Although since packages tend to depend on
> > different versions of the crates the disk space savings may be less
> > than expected.
> > I think it would be nice to have them in a subdirectory rather
> > than directly in distfiles. Maybe ${DISTDIR}/crates.io/.
>
> ${DISTDIR}/crates/ would be good because (I might be wrong, haven't
> looked at Rust in some time) they could also come from other places even
> though right now we use crates.io?
>
> > -Tobias



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Benny