Re: Some more rust/cargo insights

[Pjotr Prins]

On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 09:10:48AM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
> Am 06.06.21 um 20:38 schrieb Pjotr Prins:
> > Since that community is about not invented here - maybe we can incense
> > someone to pick it up. Needs a mature programmer though.
> 
> One solution that came to my mind is to not use Cargo, but instead parse
> Cargo.toml and issue the appropriate "rustc" commands ourself.

Exactly my idea. One challenge will be that the source of dependencies
need to be available - think of it as include files. One thing we
could do as ship them as part of the Guix package. Or have a separate
one for sources. We do that for include files already.

Pj.