Closed Bug 1373609 Opened 8 years ago Closed 8 years ago

mach should provide a convenient way to replace third party crate with local code

Categories

(Firefox Build System :: Mach Core, enhancement)

enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1323557

People

(Reporter: xidorn, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

Sometimes we need to debug or try some fixes in third party crate code. This is painful currently because Cargo would refuse to build if we touch the code it vendors, and if we want to use the [replace] approach provided by Cargo, we need to: 1. check out the code ourselves 2. add a [replace] section to both toolkit/library/rust/Cargo.toml and toolkit/library/gtest/rust/Cargo.toml 3. update the lock files of them That is lots of manual steps. I've been tired doing this every time I need to debug bindgen :(
I think I should have filed a bug about this before... but I cannot find...
The first step isn't a big problem. The second step could be a problem because I keep forgetting how to write that, and need to check the document. The third step is the most annoying one because I need to find the code of |mach vendor rust| to be sure what do I need to do.
I think this is something *cargo* should be addressing.
I'm pretty sure I've already said something like comment 3 in some other bug, but I can't find it. I found another bug for the same thing, though.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Aha! found the other: bug 1365666
cargo already addressed this by providing [replace] mechanism which should enough for mach to wrapper around, and alexcrichton's cargo-edit-locally looks useful as well as mentioned in bug 1365666 comment 15.
Product: Core → Firefox Build System
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