crankstart cannot be included in a workspace as a git submodule

[sgeos]

crankstart is workspace with one member. It cannot, therefore, be included in another Rust workspace as a git submodule. The workaround is to install crankstart and the user workspace in the same directory.

ideal directory structure

game_project_workspace/
game_project_workspace/crankstart/
game_project_workspace/game_core_library/
game_project_workspace/game_pc/
game_project_workspace/game_playdate/

workaround directory structure

crankstart/
game_project_workspace/
game_project_workspace/game_core_library/
game_project_workspace/game_pc/
game_project_workspace/game_playdate/

EDIT: Another workaround is probably to include crankstart as a git submodule and exclude it from the user workspace.

[rtsuk]

I'd imagined you'd use crankstart as a dependency from crates, so this would not be an issue.

What are you trying to do where you want to include crankstart in your workspace?

[sgeos]

I guess I wanted to put crankstart in the workspace because the instructions for using it include the following entries in Cargo.toml.

[dependencies]
crankstart = { path = "../crankstart" }
crankstart-sys = { path = "../crankstart/crankstart-sys" }

Dropping crankstart into the workspace would allow the above path to be used as is. At the time, crankstart and my project workspace were in completely different directories. Since I have a bunch of different things in my workspace, adding crankstart to the mix did not seem unreasonable. The directory structure is a lot like the one in my original post, only there are two libraries.

[rtsuk]

Not unreasonable, but I favor leaving it as-it in expectation that it might eventually end up being published to crates.io.

[sgeos]

Are there plans to publish to crates.io?

[rtsuk]

Nothing more solid than an expectation.

[apollocatlin]

Would you be open to help? I would love to assist.