Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> writes: > Aura Kelloniemi, le lun. 02 déc. 2019 13:49:15 +0200, a ecrit: > > These packages only install source code.
> Ok, but that's still system-wide installation of libraries, even if as > source code. Then > > the library files cannot be installed anywhere where they would be > > accessible to the normal Rust build tool called Cargo. > Debian does install the .rs files in /usr/share/cargo/registry. Can't > brltty do something like this to make them available? Really, I believe > that in the long run we want to maintain bindings altogether. Yes we can, but cargo does not support this. I made a test, installed librust-serde-dev in Debian, and made a test package which depended on the exact same version. However, cargo still downloaded serde from crates.io. Looking at the subject, it seems that /usr/share/cargo/registry/ is just something that distribution maintainers wish would be supported without complex configuration, but it is not. I found a feature request for Cargo[1], which cargo authors haven't even commented on. So, I would not spend much time trying to invent a way to install Rust libraries system-wide, until Cargo maintainers are interested in supporting such a scheme. I think it is a bit ignorant from their side, but perhaps they have a good reason. Rust packages are updated quite often generally, and maybe they want people to always use the latest compatible version, or something, don't know. [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/4883 Also, I don't know how to integrate cargo build system with a make-based system in clean fashion. One noteworthy thing is also that cargo is going to need an internet connection, unless all the dependencies of BRLTTY bindigns have been cached in the build user's ~/.cargo/registry. I'm not sure if want BRLTTY build to depend on internet connectivity. We can decide all this though, when the bindings are ready, and stable. How stable is the new parameters API? Should I start using it? Are there going to be Python bindings for that in the next release? -- Aura _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty
