okay, i figure niko might want to do this himself, but i've marked my interest on the bug if he doesn't.
martin On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Brian Anderson <bander...@mozilla.com> wrote: > On 11/04/2013 03:09 PM, Gaetan wrote: > > ok I understand, it will be like python which I really like the modularity. > I'm beginning to play a little with std::os as my first rust programming, > trying to add missing methods, etc, and I think this should quite strategic > to move to libextra and then to be splitted appart, this would solve this > cyclic dependency. What do you think about it? > > > Things like 'mkdir' are pretty important and are increasingly tied to our > I/O subsystem (it just moved into std::rt::io::fs), so I don't think it > should move out of standard. Since this issue of how to represent OR-able > flags is pretty common, the consensus seems to be to clean up EnumSet and > move it to std. If you're interested in tackling it I opened an issue > specifically about the move https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/10272. > > > > ----- > Gaetan > > > > 2013/11/4 Martin DeMello <martindeme...@gmail.com> >> >> How does this work without getting into a dependency loop at build time? >> >> martin >> >> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Brian Anderson <bander...@mozilla.com> >> wrote: >> > On 11/03/2013 11:10 PM, Martin DeMello wrote: >> >> >> >> I've been looking at https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/6085 which >> >> seems like it should be fairly simple to fix, however, the proposed >> >> solution involves EnumSet from libextra. >> >> >> >> Is it possible to use stuff from libextra within libstd? It seems to >> >> me that it would set up a circular dependency, though that could just >> >> be my misunderstanding the rust compilation model. If it is possible, >> >> how would I do it? If not, what would be the proper fix for issue >> >> #6085? >> >> >> > >> > As others mentioned it's not generally possible, but just for >> > curiosity's >> > sake I'll point out that when running tests std *does* link to and use >> > features from libextra. It's mind-bending and bad. >> > >> > When we decide that std absolutely can't live without features from >> > extra, >> > then those features get promoted to std. The bar is pretty high though. >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Rust-dev mailing list >> > Rust-dev@mozilla.org >> > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev >> _______________________________________________ >> Rust-dev mailing list >> Rust-dev@mozilla.org >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev > > > _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list Rust-dev@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
