Stop using nix to build lix-doc #256

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opened 2024-04-30 21:53:34 +00:00 by jade · 4 comments

jade commented

2024-04-30 21:53:34 +00:00

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We have meson, let's make our rust stuff not make our downstreams cry unnecessarily if possible.

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jade commented

2024-04-30 22:00:28 +00:00

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note: this may be blocked on meson being bad.

from lily:

meson doesn't use cargo at all, it reimplements cargo (and gstreamer couldn't use meson's native rustc support upstream because they were using cargo workspaces and meson's cargo support was still wip)

this exists and is best described as a joke until someone writes code generation tooling for this stuff: https://coaxion.net/blog/2023/04/building-a-gstreamer-plugin-in-rust-with-meson-instead-of-cargo/

it's also possible to use cargo with meson, but that is also painful and may suck for downstreams anyway due to cargo vendoring. jade sighs

note: this may be blocked on meson being bad. from lily: > meson doesn't use cargo at all, it reimplements cargo (and gstreamer couldn't use meson's native rustc support upstream because they were using cargo workspaces and meson's cargo support was still wip) this exists and is best described as a joke until someone writes code generation tooling for this stuff: https://coaxion.net/blog/2023/04/building-a-gstreamer-plugin-in-rust-with-meson-instead-of-cargo/ it's also possible to use cargo with meson, but that is also painful and may suck for downstreams anyway due to cargo vendoring. *jade sighs*

qyriad commented

2024-04-30 23:41:27 +00:00

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We plan on making Lix reasonable to build without Nix in general. We will make this work, at some point

We plan on making Lix reasonable to build without Nix in *general*. We *will* make this work, at some point

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2024-04-30 23:44:43 +00:00

Make Lix reasonable to build without a Nix implementation #258

qyriad self-assigned this 2024-07-21 19:51:28 +00:00

lix-bot commented

2024-07-21 20:45:00 +00:00

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This issue was mentioned on Gerrit on the following CLs:

commit message in cl/1656 ("build: build lix-doc with Meson! 🎉")
comment in cl/1656 ("build: build lix-doc with Meson! 🎉")

This issue was mentioned on Gerrit on the following CLs: * commit message in [cl/1656](https://gerrit.lix.systems/c/lix/+/1656) ("build: build lix-doc with Meson! 🎉") * comment in [cl/1656](https://gerrit.lix.systems/c/lix/+/1656) ("build: build lix-doc with Meson! 🎉")

qyriad commented

2024-07-22 16:25:13 +00:00

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This turned out to be a lot easier than we expected! Most of the difficulty was from Meson's docs being bad