Re: [PATCH RFC 1/3] meson: add infrastructure to build internal Rust library

From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Date: Sep 5, 2025, 07:53 UTC
Message-ID: <aLqXEcTMH-qoRHNs@pks.im>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqzfba6oih.fsf@gitster.g>

On Thu, Sep 04, 2025 at 11:50:14AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:
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> > Add the infrastructure into Meson to build an internal Rust library.
> 
> I am a bit surprised that Meson needs to learn Rust now.  How have
> you been dealing with contrib/libgit-{sys,rs}?

Neither of these are wired up in Meson right now. There aren't really any users, they don't expose a lot of functionality, and both of these libraries aren't actively developed right now. So I didn't yet have any motivation to wire them up just yet.

I also think we should reevaluate these once we officially support Rust in core Git. It feels way more reasonable to design our new core Rust code in a way that it can be pulled in as a crate right from the start. Maybe it's just a matter of moving those libraries out of "contrib/" and into our core Rust code?

Patrick