Bug#846177: [Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#846177: Bug#846177: A rustc-src package would be useful for racer completion

On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 05:55:46PM -0300, Dato Simó wrote: > > I'm becoming a big fan of racer, so I'm all for this! I haven't > > looked at the internals however - I presume racer only needs the > > source for std (and core) not the compiler itself? > > Yes, I think you are correct: only libstd

Bug#846177: [Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#846177: A rustc-src package would be useful for racer completion

> I'm becoming a big fan of racer, so I'm all for this! I haven't > looked at the internals however - I presume racer only needs the > source for std (and core) not the compiler itself? Yes, I think you are correct: only libstd sources are needed, which are about 3 MiB. Two additional notes:

Bug#846177: [Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#846177: A rustc-src package would be useful for racer completion

On Tue, 29 Nov 2016, 10:51 Dato Simó wrote: > It would be nice to have a rustc-src package containing the source for > Rust itself. > > The (widely-used) racer completion engine needs access to the source in > order to work. > I'm becoming a big fan of racer, so I'm all for

Bug#846177: A rustc-src package would be useful for racer completion

Source: rustc Severity: wishlist It would be nice to have a rustc-src package containing the source for Rust itself. The (widely-used) racer completion engine needs access to the source in order to work. There is precedent for this, for example Go provides a golang-src package. I don't think