Friend of the Tree
nmatsakis would also like to declare Ryan Prichard a Friend of the
Tree. Over the last few months, Ryan has been comparing the Rust
compiler’s parsing behavior with that of the
rust-grammar project, which aims to create a LALR(1)
grammar for parsing Rust. Ryan has found a number of inconsistencies
and bugs between the two. This kind of work is useful for two reasons:
it finds bugs, obviously, which are often hard to uncover any other
way. Second, it helps pave the way for a true Rust reference grammar
outside of the compiler source itself. So Ryan Prichard, thanks!
Compiler
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We decided to place one RFC into FCP:
Finally, and on a more grave note, let me add that there have been a
number of regressions popping up on nightly builds this week, so we
are aiming to have those squashed down soon.
Thanks!
–nmatsakis
Language
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Quiet week this week again. There is one RFC under FCP:
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RFC 1268: Allow
overlapping implementations for marker traits
We did not reach a final decision this week.
–nmatsakis
Libs
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The FCPs from last week were resolved as:
The following RFCs have been moved into FCP:
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FCP PR #1291
RFC: Promote the
libc crate from the nursery
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FCP PR #1307
Add some additional utility methods to OsString and OsStr
This week we also decided to move the
unix-socket crate into the
nursery.
Tools
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A relatively quiet few weeks, but lost of stuff coming up on the horizon!
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@nrc has been leading the charge of using rustfmt to
format a number of files in the rust-lang/rust repo and surrounding
repositories.
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@edunham, @brson, and @alexcrichton spent the past week preparing Buildbot,
rust-packaging, rust-installer, rustup, multirust, and the main repository for
producing cross-compilers. While not rolled out to prod just yet, soon it will
be much easier to download the standard library for architectures like ARM,
AArch64, MIPS, MUSL, Android, iOS, etc.
- The definition of Rust’s “tiers of support” are being fleshed out
