I don’t see why not. Cargo is fundamentally just a fancy wrapper around rustc, anyway. Sure, it’s a really fancy wrapper that does a lot of stuff but it’s entirely possible to just call rustc yourself.
The only reason to do this is if you’re directly integrated Rust into an existing build system (e.g. Bazel). It’s not going to help with this problem at all.
No, it wont. I wasn’t suggesting someone should use rustc directly. You’re already using Rust, so using cargo isn’t adding to the supply chain.
That being said, there was one time I needed to use rustc directly. We had an assignment that needed to be compilable from a single source file. I couldn’t bundle a Cargo.toml, so I gave a build script that used rustc directly.
Not cargo per se, but even the tutorial for a cli-tool is like “setup clap, which has 20 dependencies and a kitchen sink”. The whole (cargo-centric) ecosystem is much like Node, with the same problems.
And also, cargo.toml has inconsistencies and double-standards.
Not cargo per se, but even the tutorial for a cli-tool is like “setup clap, which has 20 dependencies and a kitchen sink”. The whole (cargo-centric) ecosystem is much like Node, with the same problems.
cargo newwith-clap
cd with-clap
cargo add clap --no-default-features
Soo, how do i build Rust packages without Cargo?
You can run rustc directly! You just need to pass about 30 different parameters to it as well as a list of all the dependencies you use and…
Look, it works for small projects.
So i could theoretically script a wrapper?
I don’t see why not. Cargo is fundamentally just a fancy wrapper around rustc, anyway. Sure, it’s a really fancy wrapper that does a lot of stuff but it’s entirely possible to just call rustc yourself.
The only reason to do this is if you’re directly integrated Rust into an existing build system (e.g. Bazel). It’s not going to help with this problem at all.
No, it wont. I wasn’t suggesting someone should use rustc directly. You’re already using Rust, so using cargo isn’t adding to the supply chain.
That being said, there was one time I needed to use rustc directly. We had an assignment that needed to be compilable from a single source file. I couldn’t bundle a Cargo.toml, so I gave a build script that used rustc directly.
Why do you think cargo is a problem?
Not cargo per se, but even the tutorial for a cli-tool is like “setup clap, which has 20 dependencies and a kitchen sink”. The whole (cargo-centric) ecosystem is much like Node, with the same problems.
And also, cargo.toml has inconsistencies and double-standards.
cargo new with-clap cd with-clap cargo add clap --no-default-features% cargo tree with-clap v0.1.0 (/tmp/with-clap) └── clap v4.6.0 └── clap_builder v4.6.0 ├── anstyle v1.0.14 └── clap_lex v1.1.0Can you expand on that?
That’s cheating!
I will let you expand on this before responding to both: