2015-06-16.md

Subteam report: tools 2015-06-16

Highlights

This was another quiet week for the tools team, but there were a number of advances made on the MSVC front:

• All rust-lang crates now have CI on MSVC as well as MinGW (using AppVeyor)
• A successful Cargo build using MSVC has been produced, which primarily involved ensuring all native dependencies work with MSVC (e.g. libssh2, libgit2, libcurl, miniz, ...).
• The update for llvm has finally landed, enabling work to continue on implementing unwinding for MSVC!

This past week also saw a number of improvements for Cargo land on nightly:

• Support for a shared target directory was improved by fixing a number of bugs.
• Cargo now compiles with stable Rust 1.1.
• ZSH completion has been fixed.

Dashboard

RFC phase

• Issue #635: Use benchmarks to set up a website tracking rust performance
• Issue #648: separate rust-format or rustfmt tool that does the pretty-printing
• Issue #816: Custom test frameworks
• Issue #1061: Rust, Windows, and MSVC
• PR #595: Output option handling
• PR #1133: Make Cargo aware of libstd dependencies

Implementation phase

High priority issues

• Issue #19286: Move automation off mac minis, onto macstadium
• Issue #23757: Add beta/stable integration testing
• Cargo Issue #782: Resolve errors are likely quite obscure
• Cargo Issue #942: Allow top-level overrides to be stored in the manifest
• Cargo Issue #1007: Need ability to add dependencies based on #[cfg()]
• Cargo Issue #1098: Externally discover the source directories of dependencies?
• Cargo Issue #1215: cargo build sometimes causes overrides to be built when it is already built
• Cargo Issue #1251: Build dependency awareness

Needs decision

• Issue #24451: Rename test option --nocapture to --no-capture
• Issue #25030: Add missing windres.exe dependencies to Windows distribution