It was decided a long, long time ago that libextra should not exist, but rather its modules should be split out into smaller independent libraries maintained outside of the compiler itself. The theory was to use `rustpkg` to manage dependencies in order to move everything out of the compiler, but maintain an ease of usability.
Sadly, the work on `rustpkg` isn't making progress as quickly as expected, but the need for dissolving libextra is becoming more and more pressing. Because of this, we've thought that a good interim solution would be to simply package more libraries with the rust distribution itself. Instead of dissolving libextra into libraries outside of the mozilla/rust repo, we can dissolve libraries into the mozilla/rust repo for now.
Work on this has been excruciatingly painful in the past because the makefiles are completely opaque to all but a few. Adding a new library involved adding about 100 lines spread out across 8 files (incredibly error prone). The first commit of this pull request targets this pain point. It does not rewrite the build system, but rather refactors large portions of it. Afterwards, adding a new library is as simple as modifying 2 lines (easy, right?). The build system automatically keeps track of dependencies between crates (rust *and* native), promotes binaries between stages, tracks dependencies of installed tools, etc, etc.
With this newfound buildsystem power, I chose the `extra::flate` module as the first candidate for removal from libextra. While a small module, this module is relative complex in that is has a C dependency and the compiler requires it (messing with the dependency graph a bit). Albeit I modified more than 2 lines of makefiles to accomodate libflate (the native dependency required 2 extra lines of modifications), but the removal process was easy to do and straightforward.
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Testing-wise, I've cross-compiled, run tests, built some docs, installed, uninstalled, etc. I'm still working out a few kinks, and I'm sure that there's gonna be built system issues after this, but it should be working well for basic use!
cc #8784
This is hopefully the beginning of the long-awaited dissolution of libextra.
Using the newly created build infrastructure for building libraries, I decided
to move the first module out of libextra.
While not being a particularly meaty module in and of itself, the flate module
is required by rustc and additionally has a native C dependency. I was able to
very easily split out the C dependency from rustrt, update librustc, and
magically everything gets installed to the right locations and built
automatically.
This is meant to be a proof-of-concept commit to how easy it is to remove
modules from libextra now. I didn't put any effort into modernizing the
interface of libflate or updating it other than to remove the one glob import it
had.
This change adds two improvements to docs searching functionality.
First, search results will immediately be displayed when a ?search=searchterm
query string parameter is provided to any docs url.
Second, search results are now inserted into the browser history, allowing for
easier navigation between search results and docs pages.
* Reexport io::mem and io::buffered structs directly under io, make mem/buffered
private modules
* Remove with_mem_writer
* Remove DEFAULT_CAPACITY and use DEFAULT_BUF_SIZE (in io::buffered)
cc #11119
* Reexport io::mem and io::buffered structs directly under io, make mem/buffered
private modules
* Remove with_mem_writer
* Remove DEFAULT_CAPACITY and use DEFAULT_BUF_SIZE (in io::buffered)
Major changes:
- Define temporary scopes in a syntax-based way that basically defaults
to the innermost statement or conditional block, except for in
a `let` initializer, where we default to the innermost block. Rules
are documented in the code, but not in the manual (yet).
See new test run-pass/cleanup-value-scopes.rs for examples.
- Refactors Datum to better define cleanup roles.
- Refactor cleanup scopes to not be tied to basic blocks, permitting
us to have a very large number of scopes (one per AST node).
- Introduce nascent documentation in trans/doc.rs covering datums and
cleanup in a more comprehensive way.
cc @cmr
Temporary change to issue #10535. Requires significant re-factoring to search completely based on the index paths. For example searching for "File::" in this fix will return no results. Still need to search completely based on path (rather than name's + types) to completely fix. Will continue to work this
Made temporary changes to include multiple keywords in rustdoc search
Implemented search based on multiple keywords
Added some commenting and house cleaning
Added path searching to rustdoc
Currently any line starting with `#` is filtered from the output,
including line like `#[deriving]`; this patch makes it so lines are only
filtered when followed by a space similar to the current behaviour of
the tutorial/manual tester.
This adds support for the `--test` flag to rustdoc which will parse a crate,
extract all code examples in doc comments, and then run each test in the
extra::test driver.
For `str.as_mut_buf`, un-closure-ification is achieved by outright removal (see commit message). The others are replaced by `.as_ptr`, `.as_mut_ptr` and `.len`
By returning the items to process and storing them in a queue, we were losing
the context that was setup for that item during the recursion. This is an easy
fix, rather than hoisting out the state that it needs.
rustdoc:
- fix search-bar layout
doc: CSS:
- switch to native pandoc toc depth
- rm some dead code
- clamp width to be readable (we're not Wikipedia!)
- don't background-color titles, it's bloating
- make syntax-highlighting colors inline with rust-lang.org
- space indents
@alexcrichton
This reverts commit c54427ddfbbab41a39d14f2b1dc4f080cbc2d41b.
Leave the #[ignores] in that were added to rustpkg tests.
Conflicts:
src/librustc/driver/driver.rs
src/librustc/metadata/creader.rs
