anki/cargo

This folder integrates Rust crates.io fetching into Bazel.

To update dependencies, ensure a local Rust environment is available (eg install rustup), then install this version of cargo raze:

cargo install --git https://github.com/ankitects/cargo-raze.git --branch build-deps cargo-raze
cargo install cargo-license

After updating dependencies in ../rslib/Cargo.toml, change to this folder and run python update.py to update the external Bazel repositories to point to the updated deps.

A couple of crates need extra work to build with Bazel, and are listed in ../Cargo.toml. For example:

[package.metadata.raze.crates.pyo3.'*']
compile_data_attr = "glob([\"**\"])"

With minor version updates, you should not normally need to modify the entries in that file.

Because update.py modifies a lot of files in remote/, it makes it difficult to review in a PR, and the changes can sometimes break platforms like Windows. For this reason, please don't submit PRs that do minor version bumps - those will typically be done after stable releases. If you need a new crate for a feature you're working on, please raise it in an issue first.

Reqwest

Things are complicated with reqwest at the moment, because:

• we're using a fork to implement better timeouts for syncing
• we want to build it with different features on Linux (where we can't build a wheel that links to OpenSSL), and on other platforms.

For minor version bumps, update.py should take care of updating the versions of reqwest dependencies.

After making a big update to reqwest via an updated fork, the vendored BUILD.reqwest.* files may need updating. To do that, comment native-tls from the features in rslib/Cargo.toml and run update.py, and copy the file in remote/ over the old vendored file. Then comment the other two deps out, add native-tls back, and repeat the process.