# Follow up: the Rust Platform

**URL:** <https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/follow-up-the-rust-platform/3782>\
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**Created:** [July 29, 2016, 11:11pm UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/follow-up-the-rust-platform/3782 "2016-07-29T23:11:15Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 30, 2016, 1:04am UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/follow-up-the-rust-platform/3782/7 "2016-07-30T01:04:24Z")

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> [@Havvy](#):
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> How about we add a conventions directory to src/doc for the Rust repository?

Seems reasonable (though personally I'd like to see user-facing docs moving _out_ of the main repo). The most difficult part about standardizing conventions is the politics though.

> [@abonander](#):
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> Where does stdx fit in with all of this? Maintenance seems to have stagnated, but it shares a number of goals with the proposed "platform". Is there some fundamental reason why that is nonviable?

It's conceptually a precursor. At the moment it can't be used as an extended standard library because suitable technology doesn't exist in the stack. Needs cargo metapackages. But it or something like it could fill the same role as the proposed platform metapackage, unofficially.

> [@abonander](#):
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> On an unrelated note, I would love central doc hosting

There's a promising, completely automatic solution for this in the wings by the author of [crates.fyi](https://crates.fyi/crates/). Not sure if it's been announced publicly yet, but it's going to be pretty nice.

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