Subteam reports: 2015-10-02

[aturon]

Friend of the tree

Vikrant Chaudhary (nasa42) is an individual who believes in the Rust community. Since June he has been contributing to This Week in Rust, coordinating its publication on urlo, and stirring up contributions. He recently rolled out an overhaul to the site’s design that brings it more inline with the main website. Today Vikrant is the main editor on the weekly newsletter, assisted by llogiq and other contributors. Thanks for keeping TWiR running, Vikrant, you friend of the tree.

Lang

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This is a relatively quiet week, since nrc was out. We did, however, decide to place RFC #1260 into FCP. This RFC concerns allowing the use of a re-export for the main function. We also decided to accept RFC #1245, which permits const fn functions to be declared unsafe.

Compiler

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Quiet week this week. The meeting consisted primarily of triage and minor bug fixes.

Libs

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This week the primary libs focus was resolving several outstanding issues and PRs that needed a team-wide decision. We also discussed the following nursery nominations:

• compiletest
• net2-rs
• lazy_static

along with more general process clarifications around the nursery.

We also saw a proposal for moving liblibc out of the nursery, while simultaneously greatly clarifying its purpose and design:

• PR #1291: RFC: Promote the libc crate from the nursery

There has been significant discussion around no_std and friends, which is currently in FCP:

• FCP Issue #27701: Tracking issue for libcore stabilization

Other FCP issues for 1.5 stabilization are available here; please leave feedback!

Finally, we accepted the RFC on wildcard dependencies in crates.io:

• PR #1241: Forbid wildcard dependencies on crates.io

No RFCs moved into FCP this week.

Tools

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Some exciting developments happened in the past few weeks on the tooling and infrastructure point, here’s some of the highlights:

• Basic NetBSD/amd64 has landed in the compiler.
• Support for a target_vendor cfg option was added and then used to add support for rumprun.
• A linkage issue with MSVC was fixed, one of the last few remaining issues to a smooth MSVC experience!
• Cargo now warns about * dependencies when publishing a crate in accordance with RFC 1241.
• Cargo now accepts multiple -p parameters to all of its commands to allow operations such as testing multiple packages in one go.
• multirust now has Windows support through an MSYS shell, and soon there may even be a Rust version of multirust!

[nasa42]

Thanks for the love @aturon!