syn 1.x dependency reintroduced in 0.25 via stability crate

[extrawurst]

0.25 adds stability crate as a dependency which seems rather unmaintained and still depends on old syn 1.x.

is there an alternative that is more maintained and up to date? or is there a chance to get this update upstreamed into stabilty?

[orhun]

I'm guessing the reason why we depend on stability crate is that Rust does not support stability attributes (such as #[unstable(...)]) outside of the standard library. See rust-lang/rfcs#1491

I looked around in the Rust ecosystem a bit for a maintained alternative of stability crate but couldn't find anything. (Let me know if you know something!) So I believe I think it is best to upstream some changes for putting stability in a better shape.

[orhun]

I updated the syn dependency in sagebind/stability#8, hopefully the maintainer will respond soon.

[orhun]

Seems like that the maintainer of stability is not responding. Should fork it and release a new version on crates.io to get this moving? I looked for alternative crates but couldn't find any.

[extrawurst]

@orhun that would be great 👍

[joshka]

Seems like that the maintainer of stability is not responding. Should fork it and release a new version on crates.io to get this moving? I looked for alternative crates but couldn't find any.

Looks like they are still fairly active on github, so it may just be a time thing. I'd generally prefer to work out a way that avoids forking something like this. Perhaps @sagebind would be amenable to adding one of us as a secondary maintainer? Can you reach out via email / socials?

If this wasn't a proc macro I'd just say bring in the source code directly and use it. But we'd need a separate library for this. It's a shame ratatui-macros is already taken (that probably should have been named tui-macros) as that would be a good place for proc macros that are necessary to be able to build ratatui like this to live.

[sww1235]

looks like this was fixed in commit #b5061c5. Thanks for prodding sagebind XD.