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[bug#42179] [PATCH] gnu: Add racer.
From: |
Jakub Kądziołka |
Subject: |
[bug#42179] [PATCH] gnu: Add racer. |
Date: |
Sun, 12 Jul 2020 16:58:23 +0200 |
On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 09:14:59AM -0700, John Soo wrote:
> 2. Racer requires features that are not in the stable branch of rust.
> Unfortunately this is not any fault of racer. Racer uses crates from
> rustc which uses unstable features. To get around this, I built
> racer using the undocumented and unsupported RUSTC_BOOTSTRAP environment
> variable. Perhaps the better future solution would be to provide a
> nightly rustc and use that to compile racer.
How about we use the source of rust itself for the rustc-ap packages?
That way, updating rustc won't actually ever break because of RUSTC_BOOTSTRAP,
since the use of the unstable features comes from the same source of
truth that will actually compile them.
Regards,
Jakub Kądziołka
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