Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> writes:
> 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}?
> Building the Rust parts of Git are for now entirely optional, as they
> are mostly intended as a test balloon for both Git developers, but also
> for distributors of Git. So for now, they may contain:
>
> - New features that are not mission critical to Git and that users can
> easily live without.
>
> - Alternative implementations of small subsystems.
>
> If these test balloons are successful, we will eventually make Rust a
> mandatory dependency for our build process in Git 3.0.
>
> The availability of a Rust toolchain will be auto-detected by Meson at
> setup time. This behaviour can be tweaked via the `-Drust=` feature
> toggle.
>
> Next to the linkable Rust library, also wire up tests that can be
> executed via `meson test`. This allows us to use the native unit testing
> capabilities of Rust.
OK.
> Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx>
> ---
> meson.build | 16 +++++++++++++++-
> meson_options.txt | 2 ++
> src/lib.rs | 0
> src/meson.build | 12 ++++++++++++
> 4 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
