On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 03:07:40PM +0100, Phillip Wood wrote:

Hi Patrick

On 22/09/2025 14:01, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:

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On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 02:59:58PM +0100, Phillip Wood wrote:

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On 15/09/2025 12:22, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:

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+You can explicitly ask both Meson and our Makefile-based system to enable Rust
+by saying `meson configure -Drust=enabled` and `make WITH_RUST=YesPlease`,
+respectively.

This is helpful but ideally before Git 2.53 we'd make the Makefile and meson
print that information if they fail due to a missing rust compiler.

The intent here is to allow us a bit of time to iterate on the build
infra before making either of the build systems error out. Ezekiel has a
bunch of follow-ups that we'll want to land to also unblock support on
Windows and to implement things we don't yet have, like Rust-accessible
C bindings.

Is there any particular reason why you want to accelerate this timeline
and make the build systems error out right from the start?

I'm not suggesting that. I'm saying when rust is enabled by default in Git
2.53, if the Makefile cannot find a rust compiler it should print a message
that says how to build git without rust so that users do not have to wade
through this document or our release notes to find out how to do that.

Ah, sorry, I misread what you were saying. This would be a useful thing
to do indeed.

Patrick