Re: Rust packaging coordination

[Efraim Flashner]

On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 11:48:12AM -0500, Martin Becze wrote:
> I have packaged alacritty (im using it as a test app for the recursive crate
> importer). I'll wait until you get tokei in!
> 
> On 1/16/20 3:14 AM, John Soo wrote:
> > Hello guix and rust packagers,
> > 
> > I’m curious if anyone else is working on packaging rust apps.  I have been 
> > working on a patch set for tokei and it’s getting close to done.
> > 
> > I would not like it if I had to rebase all 50 patches and I wouldn’t want 
> > anyone else to have to rebase theirs. So if you are working on any rust 
> > packages, maybe we should coordinate to make it less painful to merge.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > John
> > 
> 

I want to remind everyone of a couple of things with rust packages:
* packages get added in alphabetical order
* every package is rust-foo-(version-major+minor)
* packages are added so that rust-foo-0.5 is higher than rust-foo-0.4,
  and rust-foo-0.4 inherits from rust-foo-0.5.
* Make sure the versions of the cargo{-development,}-inputs are correct.
  They sometimes change even when bumping a minor version.
* Try to add packages in an order that allows them to be built after
  each commit. This makes it easier to build and lint them.

And make sure at the end that the existing rust packages (currently
rust-cbindgen, ripgrep and librsvg@2.46) continue to build after you've
added and bumped other rust packages.

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