Strawman pre-RFC: Custom profiles

Manishearth · January 5, 2018, 6:52am

I’ve updated this with feedback from @matklad and @luser . I’ll post an RFC soon.

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/Manishearth/ae745909481843b1d60c80755fd613f4

cargo-profiles.md


# Summary
[summary]: #summary

Add the ability to create custom profiles in Cargo.toml, to provide further control over how the project is built. Allow overriding profile keys for certain dependency trees. 

# Motivation
[motivation]: #motivation

Currently the "stable" way to tweak build parameters like "debug symbols", "debug assertions", and "optimization level" is to edit Cargo.toml.

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