Re: ‘cargo-build-system’ makes everything slow

[Efraim Flashner]

On Mon, Dec 02, 2024 at 08:24:29PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Perhaps this would be a good time to revive the antioxidant-build-system
> by Maxime Devos.  I see on https://issues.guix.gnu.org/64904 that
> Nicolas Graves had been working on bringing it back to live, but there
> are no patches.

I still have a copy of the code on my machine but unfortunately it no
longer builds due to the constant churn of rust packages.

One thing I remember explicitly about it was that building end packages
was faster than the current method, and that was before taking into
account reusing build artifacts.

https://notabug.org/maximed/cargoless-rust-experiments

Another idea which I'm not in love with is what Debian does. They grab
all of the sources into one build environment and then build everything.
It simplifies the dependency management of the sources but for us it
would make it so that we can't touch anything in rust without causing a
full rebuild of everything.

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