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Every dependency you add is a supply chain attack waiting to happen (benhoyt.com)
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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Soo, how do i build Rust packages without Cargo?

[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You can run rustc directly! You just need to pass about 30 different parameters to it as well as a list of all the dependencies you use and...

Look, it works for small projects.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So i could theoretically script a wrapper?

[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 6 points 1 month ago

I don't see why not. Cargo is fundamentally just a fancy wrapper around rustc, anyway. Sure, it's a really fancy wrapper that does a lot of stuff but it's entirely possible to just call rustc yourself.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

The only reason to do this is if you're directly integrated Rust into an existing build system (e.g. Bazel). It's not going to help with this problem at all.

[–] BB_C@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why do you think cargo is a problem?

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Not cargo per se, but even the tutorial for a cli-tool is like "setup clap, which has 20 dependencies and a kitchen sink". The whole (cargo-centric) ecosystem is much like Node, with the same problems.

And also, cargo.toml has inconsistencies and double-standards.

[–] BB_C@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Not cargo per se, but even the tutorial for a cli-tool is like “setup clap, which has 20 dependencies and a kitchen sink”. The whole (cargo-centric) ecosystem is much like Node, with the same problems.

cargo new with-clap
cd with-clap
cargo add clap --no-default-features

% cargo tree
with-clap v0.1.0 (/tmp/with-clap)
└── clap v4.6.0
    └── clap_builder v4.6.0
        ├── anstyle v1.0.14
        └── clap_lex v1.1.0

And also, cargo.toml has inconsistencies and double-standards.

Can you expand on that?

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

--no-default-features

That's cheating!

[–] BB_C@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

I will let you expand on this before responding to both:

And also, cargo.toml has inconsistencies and double-standards.