Hi Antonio (and anybody else that understands the technical problem
involved here),
I've been reading the whole thread and it seems to me that the reason,
why Rust/Go build-time "libraries" need to be handled differently from
all the other existing stuff in the world and that "no user ever wants
to use" the Debian-provided build-time Rust/Go libraries has not been
spelled out in plain, comprehensible english yet.
So since you seem to understand a bit about the technical problem
involved here and I'd very much appreciate if you could spell it out. I
think it would benefit the project as then everybody would be able to
understand what this new section is about.
So let me ask a question that could maybe clear things up:
On 11.11.20 14:39, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
In the Rust world there is no such thing as installing a library
globably. A crate that provides a library can only be used to build
other stuff, and is never made available globally. "cargo install" only
applies to creates that provide binaries:
https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/commands/cargo-install.html
[I've read the cargo-install.html document in the past but not re-read
it now]
So let's say user joe wants to code Go software that depends on Go's
third party github.com/tazjin/kontemplate/templater package ("package"
in Go's taxonomy not in Debian's!).
Then he'd `export GOPATH=~/src/go` and `go get
github.com/tazjin/kontemplate`. Go would then `git clone` everything
under `~/src/go/src/github.com/tazjin/kontemplate/`.
So far so good and I think Rust has a similar mechanisms with cargo, right?
Now given that alice wants to package joe's software. She'll do the
above plus `go get github.com/joe/joes_app`. All will be under
`~/src/go/src/github....`.
The naive thing to do now would be to move `~/src/go/src/` to
`/usr/lib/go` and package that as `go-tazjin-kontemplate-dev_0.1.deb` or
similar.
Debian's automatic build process for "joes_app" would first install
`go-tazjin-kontemplate-dev_0.1.deb`, then make a symlink from
`~/src/go/src/github.com/tazjin` (or `~/.local/go` or whereever Go
expects its stuff by default) to `/usr/lib/go/src/github.com/tazjin` and
build and be done.
A user wanting to develop software based on tazjin's stuff would do the
same: `apt-get install go-tazjin-kontemplate-dev`, symlink, done.
This solution seems to be too trivial that nobody would have though of
it, so what is it that I (and I guess many Debianers) are missing?
*t
