compilation error: parameter Self is never used

[zimbatm]

I'm very new to rust otherwise I would fix this issue myself. Is it possible that I am using the wrong version of rust ?

$ rustc -V
rustc 1.0.0-beta (built 2015-04-04)
$ cargo build
    Updating registry `https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index`
 Downloading quickcheck v0.2.14
   Compiling byteorder v0.3.8 (file:///Users/zimbatm/code/github.com/BurntSushi/byteorder)
src/lib.rs:87:1: 201:2 error: parameter `Self` is never used
src/lib.rs:87 pub trait ByteOrder {
src/lib.rs:88     /// Reads an unsigned 16 bit integer from `buf`.
src/lib.rs:89     ///
src/lib.rs:90     /// Task failure occurs when `buf.len() < 2`.
src/lib.rs:91     fn read_u16(buf: &[u8]) -> u16;
src/lib.rs:92
              ...
src/lib.rs:201:2: 201:2 help: consider removing `Self` or using a marker such as `core::marker::PhantomFn`
error: aborting due to previous error
Could not compile `byteorder`.

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[BurntSushi]

Yup, wrong version. Try upgrading to beta2.

[zimbatm]

Ok. v0.3.7 compiles fine but I wasn't able to pin the version in my Cargo.toml

[BurntSushi]

No, I mean upgrade your rustc. You're using beta1. You need beta2. You shouldn't need to be pinning anytbing in Cargo.toml unless you have to use beta1. (In which case, you'd need "=0.3.7".)

[zimbatm]

Yeah sorry I understood. My code is working fine with beta1 and beta2 isn't packaged for homebrew just yet (and I don't really like the idea of running curl ... | sudo sh). Thanks for the pointer for version pinning !

[BurntSushi]

(and I don't really like the idea of running curl ... | sudo sh)

Thankfully, you don't have to:

curl -O https://static.rust-lang.org/rustup.sh
sh rustup.sh --prefix $HOME/rust  # or whatever

Glad you got it working though!

[zimbatm]

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