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rust: add a README
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Authored by valentin.gatienbaron on Jan 20 2020, 6:36 PM.

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In particular to explain how to build any of the rust. It's neither
obvious, nor easy to find out, nor easy to determine if you did it
right without some documentation.

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Alphare accepted this revision.Jan 21 2020, 4:32 AM
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Alphare added inline comments.
rust/README.rst
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I think you're missing the -l option for run-tests.py

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I would add a mention of using cargo c(heck) for faster iteration and using cargo test --all to run the Rust tests, but this patch is already good enough on its own.

pulkit added inline comments.
rust/README.rst
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IIRC, it's now possible to use HGMODULEPOLICY=rust. @gracinet that's possible now right?

Alphare added inline comments.Jan 21 2020, 7:28 AM
rust/README.rst
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HGMODULEPOLICY=rust+c to select it at runtime yes. But for not for make local AFAIK.

My general feeling is that I'd like to deprecate HGWITHRUSTEXT.

We now have python setup.py --rust [build|install|etc] and the coincidental make local PURE=--rust (works because $PURE, while meant to be for --pure is inserted blindly at the right place in the setup.py command.

Maybe this is a good time to decide of a better make variable ? EXTENSION_TYPE ? COMPILE_OPTIONS ? BUILD_OPTIONS ?

It's obviously a good thing to have official instructions, thank you Valentin for raising the subject.

rust/README.rst
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HGMODULEPOLICY is for runtime, it can be rust+c or rust+c-allow.
In the first form, not having the Rust extension is a failure, in the second, there's a fallback.

"deprecate" was a bit too strong. Actually I'd like to downgrade HGWITHRUSTEXT to be something that'll be useful to play with alternative ways of building the Rust extension(s). Example: if someone wants to experiment with PyO3.

valentin.gatienbaron marked an inline comment as done.Jan 21 2020, 9:35 AM

I didn't mention setup.py --rust because the toplevel readme doesn't mention setup.py, so I don't really know if that's really how mercurial is intended to be built or an implementation detail.

rust/README.rst
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When I tested, setting HGMODULEPOLICY didn't work, perhaps because of what Raphael said.

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Well, one can use -l to run rust tests, but it's not mandatory?

gracinet added inline comments.Jan 21 2020, 10:10 AM
rust/README.rst
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Both Raphaël and I were saying the same thin, perhaps a bit partially.

Here's the whole picture:

  • options to make or setup.py govern what is built (HGWITHRUSTEXT also).
  • among the built extensions, what is actually used at runtime depends on the module policy, which is read from mercurial/__modulepolicy__.py and can be overridden by HGMODULEPOLICY ,
  • at build time, a default policy value is set in mercurial/__modulepolicy__.py. For the record, this is rust+c-allow for local builds with Rust and rust+c for other Rust builds.

This policy system is actuallly not specific to Rust, it's also in use with the C extensions, the major difference being that C extensions are built by default.

For example, if one does not build the C extensions and use HGMODULEPOLICY=c, that's a hard error. With HGMODULEPOLICY=allow, one gets a fallback to the pure implementation.

Same with Rust: rust+c gives a hard error is Rust isn't built, while rust+c-allow fallbacks to C extensions only

pulkit accepted this revision.Jan 21 2020, 11:02 AM
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