From: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 18:49:09 GMT
Subject: Re: Problems publishing Rust crates (was: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.49.0)
Message-ID: <y53krdpxppjsc7qnua6otf7e7vx5yxhiyzilacie5a6vsle3s4@qhvmyqyf63jq>
In-Reply-To: <4zi3re4viluih7qwvwlu7mp3j6e6gjexz2bppa5am45nnqkezz@7vtwmyrfdwvi>

On 2025.03.14 12:43, Josh Steadmon wrote:
> On 2025.03.14 10:16, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >  * Foreign language interface for Rust into our code base has been added.
> 
> Unfortunately, I've run into problems publishing the new crates to
> crates.io. Specifically, the build process for `cargo publish` is
> different from `cargo build` in that the root of the repository is not
> included, and therefore our build.rs scripts cannot find the top-level
> Makefile or any of the Git sources outside of `contrib/libgit-*`.
> 
> To prevent squatters from stealing the libgit* crate names, I've
> published placeholder crates, which we can replace once we've fixed the
> build issues.

I have some pre-RFC-quality fixes for this. I'll need to split them up
into logical changes, add some explanation and discuss alternatives
considered, etc. I should be able to send them to the list sometime
tomorrow.