Re: How to move forward about Rust? antioxidant, cargo2guix, etc.

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On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 06:38:01 +0800,
Nicolas Graves wrote:
>
> On 2025-02-26 15:45, Murilo wrote:
>
> Great!
>
> WDYT about the following :
>
> 1) What should we do about unbundling, in particular -sys libraries ?
> (Should that be done in the importer, the build-system or written in Guix ?)

Depending on what's currently done.

We can patch individual crates first and integrate change into the build system
when there's a pattern.

> 2) That still makes a lot of lines for recording triplets of
> (name, version, checksum)
> A procedure or macro could help IMO. If we're going to change a checksum
> along with a checksum on most upgrades, a single line change should be
> enough.

This can be done when we have decided to switch to this model.

> A fun fact is that after that change, we probably won't need a rust-team
> branch, except for upgrades to the build-system itself ;)

:)