Subteam report: tools 2015-07-01

Highlights

This past week the Rust team was at the Mozilla Work Week where a number of meaty tooling-related topics were discussed including cross compilation, distribution of artiacts, online installers, and cargo install. Keep your eyes peeled for a cargo install RFC coming soon!

Otherwise this past week there were a number of exciting changes to Cargo made:

A --quiet flag was added to all subcommands
Command output is now escaped for a shell
MSVC nightlies are now available

In other news we now have combined Rust/Cargo installers for MSVC 64 bit Windows being built on a nightly basis now! The URLs are:

If you're interested in checking out the MSVC support of the compiler, please take these for a spin and report any bugs! Keep in mind that unwinding is not yet turned on (so destructors on panics won't run), but everything else should be basically working (modulo small bugs).

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

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