Workspace deps were introduced in Rust 1.64. They don't cover all the
cases that Hakari did unfortunately, but they are simpler to maintain,
and they avoid a couple of issues that Hakari had:
- It sometimes made updating dependencies harder due to the locked versions,
so you had to disable Hakari, do the updates, and then re-generate (
e.g. 943dddf28f)
- The current Hakari config was breaking AnkiDroid's build, as it was
stopping a cross-compile from functioning correctly.
Provides better visibility into what the build is currently doing.
Motivated by slow node.js downloads making the build appear stuck.
You can test this out by running ./tools/install-n2 then building
normally. Please report any problems, and 'cargo uninstall n2' to get
back to the old behaviour. It works on Windows, but prints a new line
each second instead of redrawing the same area.
A couple of changes were required for compatibility:
- n2 doesn't resolve $variable names inside other variables, so the
resolution needs to be done by our build generator.
- Our inputs and outputs in build.ninja need to be listed in a deterministic
order to avoid unwanted rebuilds. I've made a few other tweaks so the
build file should now be fully-deterministic.
Will be handy to use it in our other scripts in the future too - thanks
Rumo!
Results of benchmarking ./run before and after these crate splits:
- Touching a proto file leads to a slight increase: about +90ms
- Touching an rslib file leads to a bigger decrease, as there's less to
recompile: about -700ms
And ./ninja test is even better: about +200ms and -3800ms.
