cargo2nix VS crates.io-index

Compare cargo2nix vs crates.io-index and see what are their differences.

cargo2nix

Granular builds of Rust projects for Nix (by cargo2nix)
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crates.io-index

Registry index for crates.io (by rust-lang)
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cargo2nix crates.io-index
12 39
325 537
11.1% 2.6%
6.7 10.0
13 days ago 2 days ago
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MIT License -
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

cargo2nix

Posts with mentions or reviews of cargo2nix. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-02.

crates.io-index

Posts with mentions or reviews of crates.io-index. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-21.
  • Google open-sources Rust crate audits
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 23 May 2023
    That's already prevented by the checksum which is present for all crate versions in the registry index, which is set in stone on publish and verified by cargo on download. See e.g. https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index/blob/74f1b1e064...
  • Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here (21/2023)!
    8 projects | /r/rust | 21 May 2023
    Why is the crates.io registry Git repository structured the way it is? https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index
  • Rust Offline?
    9 projects | /r/rust | 4 May 2023
    # $HOME/.cargo/config.toml [...] [registry] default = "gitea" [registries.crates] index = "https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index.git" [registries.gitea] index = "https://gitea.localhost.local/user/_cargo-index.get" [...]
  • Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here (18/2023)!
    5 projects | /r/rust | 2 May 2023
    [[package]] name = "cbindgen" version = "0.24.3" source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index" checksum = "a6358dedf60f4d9b8db43ad187391afe959746101346fe51bb978126bec61dfb" dependencies = [ "clap 3.2.23", "heck", "indexmap", "log", "proc-macro2", "quote", "serde", "serde_json", "syn 1.0.109", "tempfile", "toml 0.5.11", ]
  • How to list upgradable crates programmatically
    3 projects | /r/rust | 13 Apr 2023
    $ cargo upgrade --dry-run --compatible ignore --incompatible allow --pinned ignore --verbose 2>&1 Updating 'https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index' index Checking foo's dependencies name old req compatible latest new req note ==== ======= ========== ====== ======= ==== axum 0.6.11 0.6.15 0.6.15 0.6.11 compatible base64 0.20.0 0.20.0 0.21.0 0.21.0 ...
  • Failing to download crates because can reach github repo. Am i only one?
    1 project | /r/rust | 3 Apr 2023
    I am getting: spurious network error (2 tries remaining): unexpected http status code: 503; class=Http Caused by: failed to fetch https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index
  • Advanced crates.io search
    1 project | /r/rust | 26 Mar 2023
    https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index contains the entire crates.io index with the names of all crates and their dependencies. grep or ripgrep over that should do the job.
  • Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here (12/2023)!
    14 projects | /r/rust | 20 Mar 2023
    [[package]] name = "spade" version = "2.1.0" source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index" checksum = "1190e0e8f4eb17fc3dbb2d20e1142676e56aaac3daede39f64a3302d687b80f3" dependencies = [ "num-traits", "optional", "robust 0.2.3 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)", "smallvec", ]
  • Extremely slow cargo dependency fetching
    1 project | /r/learnrust | 8 Mar 2023
    Caused by: process didn't exit successfully: git fetch --force --update-head-ok 'https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index' '+HEAD:refs/remotes/origin/HEAD' (exit status: 128) --- stderr error: 2747 bytes of body are still expected fetch-pack: unexpected disconnect while reading sideband packet fatal: early EOF fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output
  • Last uploaded crates
    2 projects | /r/rust | 28 Feb 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cargo2nix and crates.io-index you can also consider the following projects:

naersk - Build Rust projects in Nix - no configuration, no code generation, no IFD, sandbox friendly.

buildx - Docker CLI plugin for extended build capabilities with BuildKit

rust-nix-template - Rust project template with Nix (Flakes) and VSCode support

quick-xml - Rust high performance xml reader and writer

rust-overlay - Pure and reproducible nix overlay of binary distributed rust toolchains

cargo-crev - A cryptographically verifiable code review system for the cargo (Rust) package manager.

crate2nix - rebuild only changed crates in CI with crate2nix and nix

cargo-outdated - A cargo subcommand for displaying when Rust dependencies are out of date

Cargo - The Rust package manager

cargo-msrv - 🦀 Find the minimum supported Rust version (MSRV) for your project

watt - Runtime for executing procedural macros as WebAssembly

cargo-deny - ❌ Cargo plugin for linting your dependencies 🦀

cargo2nix vs naersk crates.io-index vs buildx cargo2nix vs rust-nix-template crates.io-index vs quick-xml cargo2nix vs rust-overlay crates.io-index vs cargo-crev cargo2nix vs crate2nix crates.io-index vs cargo-outdated cargo2nix vs Cargo crates.io-index vs cargo-msrv cargo2nix vs watt crates.io-index vs cargo-deny