rust/README.rst
author Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com>
Wed, 31 Jan 2018 14:05:11 -0800
changeset 35981 ef683a0fd21f
parent 35569 964212780daf
child 44114 8a3b045d9086
permissions -rw-r--r--
wireproto: define and use types for wire protocol commands Wire protocol commands have historically been declared as 2-tuples in wireproto.commands. There are some additional features I'd like to implement that require going beyond 2-tuples. But because the 2-tuple API (both destructuring assignment and direct assignment into the dict) is used throughout the code base and in 3rd party extensions, we can't do a trivial type change. This commit creates a new "commandentry" type to represent declared wire protocol commands. It implements __getitem__ and __iter__ so it can quack like a 2-tuple. The @wireprotocommand decorator now creates "commandentry" instances. We also create a "commanddict" type to represent the dictionary of declared wire protocol commands. It inherits from "dict" but provides a custom __setitem__ to coerce passed 2-tuples to "commandentry" instances. wireproto.commands is now an instance of this type. Various callers in core rely on the new functionality. And tests pass. So I'm reasonably confident things will "just work" in 3rd party extensions as well. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D1998

===================
Mercurial Rust Code
===================

This directory contains various Rust code for the Mercurial project.

The top-level ``Cargo.toml`` file defines a workspace containing
all primary Mercurial crates.

Building
========

To build the Rust components::

   $ cargo build

If you prefer a non-debug / release configuration::

   $ cargo build --release

Features
--------

The following Cargo features are available:

localdev (default)
   Produce files that work with an in-source-tree build.

   In this mode, the build finds and uses a ``python2.7`` binary from
   ``PATH``. The ``hg`` binary assumes it runs from ``rust/target/<target>hg``
   and it finds Mercurial files at ``dirname($0)/../../../``.

Build Mechanism
---------------

The produced ``hg`` binary is *bound* to a CPython installation. The
binary links against and loads a CPython library that is discovered
at build time (by a ``build.rs`` Cargo build script). The Python
standard library defined by this CPython installation is also used.

Finding the appropriate CPython installation to use is done by
the ``python27-sys`` crate's ``build.rs``. Its search order is::

1. ``PYTHON_SYS_EXECUTABLE`` environment variable.
2. ``python`` executable on ``PATH``
3. ``python2`` executable on ``PATH``
4. ``python2.7`` executable on ``PATH``

Additional verification of the found Python will be performed by our
``build.rs`` to ensure it meets Mercurial's requirements.

Details about the build-time configured Python are built into the
produced ``hg`` binary. This means that a built ``hg`` binary is only
suitable for a specific, well-defined role. These roles are controlled
by Cargo features (see above).

Running
=======

The ``hgcli`` crate produces an ``hg`` binary. You can run this binary
via ``cargo run``::

   $ cargo run --manifest-path hgcli/Cargo.toml

Or directly::

   $ target/debug/hg
   $ target/release/hg

You can also run the test harness with this binary::

   $ ./run-tests.py --with-hg ../rust/target/debug/hg

.. note::

   Integration with the test harness is still preliminary. Remember to
   ``cargo build`` after changes because the test harness doesn't yet
   automatically build Rust code.