From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2026 04:55:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Move rust gitcore crate to a different subdirectory
Message-ID: <nabuy27x5sqyp5sjselp7lbxqnvov2mtemvke7geucn6a2ixg2@62s4t5gkhsdo>
In-Reply-To: <aYP7KKD1tDsormI3@fruit.crustytoothpaste.net>

On Thu, Feb 05, 2026 at 02:06:32AM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> I can tell you from my experience that mrustc's cargo implementation is
> extremely limited and does only the bare minimum in terms of
> functionality.  It already needs some help to work with static
> libraries, but I'd really like to minimize the work that needs to be
> done on it since it's not lovely code, and using a standard layout is
> going to help with minimizing the necessary changes.  I will admit that
> I haven't tested using a non-standard layout, but I fully expect it will
> not work based on my experience of the codebase.

For what it's worth, it looks like mrustc supports non-standard layout
just fine[1], and that's not totally surprising, because the rustc codebase
used to use non-standard layouts a lot (although that's not true
anymore)

1. https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc/blob/7ff9513adb7cdbe0f8799e7b1f2e4df00ae21a14/tools/minicargo/manifest.cpp#L772