Announcing the new Rust package manager, Cargo

Re:Announcing the new Rust package manager, Cargo by dubcanada on Monday March 17, 2014 @11:43PM (#7419953)

I'm all for Rust package system. But Rust isn't even stable or sort of stable yet? What is the point of working on a package manager when they don't even know what vectors or the extern crate/mod system will look like in 3 months?

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Re:Announcing the new Rust package manager, Cargo by wycats on Monday March 17, 2014 @11:47PM (#7419970)

A package manager will be a forcing function for stability. The Rust team wants to ship Rust 1.0 sometime late this year (I think? Correct me if I'm wrong)

Building a package manager is not a one-month project, and getting it done in parallel with the stabilization of the core means that there will be a full-stack system that people can use and help iterate on as things stabilize, and that will be ready to go once Rust itself is ready for mass consumption.

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Re:Announcing the new Rust package manager, Cargo by steveklabnik on Monday March 17, 2014 @11:51PM (#7419996)

Yes, the intention is 1.0 this year.

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Re:Announcing the new Rust package manager, Cargo by pcwalton on Monday March 17, 2014 @11:47PM (#7419969)

We do know what those two things will look like. The design is fairly ironed out at the moment, just not fully implemented. For vectors (dynamically-sized types), there's even a PLT Redex model to verify that the design holds together…

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Re:Announcing the new Rust package manager, Cargo by carterschonwald on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @12:53AM (#7420256)

ooo, wheres this vector model?

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Re:Announcing the new Rust package manager, Cargo by kibwen on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @01:08AM (#7420296)

This is the only one that I know of, not sure if it's the one pcwalton was referring to:

https://github.com/nikomatsakis/rust-redex

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Re:Announcing the new Rust package manager, Cargo by dbaupp on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @01:32AM (#7420365)

https://github.com/anasazi/rust-redex is more recent and is actively being worked on (by ecr on IRC).

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Re:Announcing the new Rust package manager, Cargo by bjz_ on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @01:29AM (#7420360)

Awesome! Will have to delve into this later... a formal proof is going to be super important for Rust.

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