Re: Current state of cargo-build-system

[Ivan Petkov]

> On Jan 28, 2019, at 12:44 AM, Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Outputs are only generated when building the package.
> 
> If all you need is the source code, however, you can use (package-source
> the-package) and use the resulting value as an input to another package.

Thanks Ricardo, I think this is what I was looking for!

In the case of cargo, I think it we still need to processes the input tarball 
into
the right format to get vendored correctly, but the build system should know 
enough
about how to perform the vendoring steps anyway, so this is a step in the right 
direction.

—Ivan