libs-team
cargo-crev
libs-team | cargo-crev | |
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13 | 55 | |
107 | 2,034 | |
1.9% | 1.7% | |
6.3 | 7.7 | |
3 months ago | 2 days ago | |
Rust | Rust | |
Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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.
libs-team
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Error when using cxx to link a Rust-written library in a C++ project
In rust, both release and debug builds use a release version of the runtime. The bugs the debug version is meant to catch are much more difficult to hit in rust (often but not always requiring unsafe). There isn't currently a feature to use the debug runtime in rust-- you can only change C to match for those debug builds.
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log is going to bump msrv to 1.60
Note that this has been discussed at length (and I do mean "at length") here: https://github.com/rust-lang/libs-team/issues/72
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Why We Love Rust: Ferris Is Only Part Of It
The Compiler Team, especially the Diagnostics Working Group that improves compiler error messages. The Libs Team, for work on the contents of the standard library documentation
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Rust in 2023: Growing Up
See https://github.com/rust-lang/libs-team/issues/72#issuecommen... for what I believe is an exhaustive list of possible ways of helping the situation.
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time: MSRV policy is changing beginning 2023-07-01 to N-2 rustc versions
The point is how the MSRV of a popular crate affects this dynamic for other crates. For an even more extreme example than time, see here for libc, with many heavyweights offering opinions: https://github.com/rust-lang/libs-team/issues/72
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What are binary crate MSRV policy best practices?
In case you haven't seen it yet, there is a very long discussion surrounding MSRV policy of the libc crate on rust-langs github repo. It's about a library, not a binary, but I think there's a lot of information in the thread, some of which will also apply to binaries.
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(pre-announcing) clap 4.0, a Rust CLI argument parser
Would you mind sharing your use case for being stuck with a particular version of Rust and why you can't upgrade? In particular with the libs team: https://github.com/rust-lang/libs-team/issues/72
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Azure CTO: “It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++ ”
Compare Stepanov's brilliant design of the STL to Rust's current reworking of their 'binary search api'. https://github.com/rust-lang/libs-team/issues/81
Maybe 'memory safety' isn't the most important thing in this world. To me, writing software that does useful things in the simplest and most correct way is what matters. I get the feeling it's harder to understand my program's correctness with Rust (I mean algorithmic correctness). The C++ standard library has time and space complexity for every algorithm. I'm not seeing that's the case with Rust (correct me if I'm wrong).
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Is anyone actually stuck on an old version of Rust
There's also the pretty fundamental libc crate that wants to choose an MSRV policy and you can see the full discussion here: https://github.com/rust-lang/libs-team/issues/72
- For rust, I have never see a real world project contains million lines of code, nor more than 1000 components here.
cargo-crev
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Hard disk LEDs and noisy machines
In other cases it may be more documented, such as Golangs baked-in telemetry.
There should be better ways to check these problems. The best I have found so far is Crev https://github.com/crev-dev/crev/. It's most used implementation is Cargo-crev https://github.com/crev-dev/cargo-crev, but hopefully it will become more required to use these types of tools. Certainty and metrics about how many eyes have been on a particular script, and what expertise they have would be a huge win for software.
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Rust Without Crates.io
The main problem the author is talking about is actually about version updates, which in Maven as well as crates.io is up to each lib's author, and is not curated in any way.
There's no technical solution to that, really. Do you think Nexus Firewall can pick up every exploit, or even most? How confident of that are you, and what data do you have to back that up? I don't have any myself, but would not be surprised at all if "hackers" can easily work around their scanning.
However, I don't have a better approach than using scanning tools like Nexus, or as the author proposes, use a curated library repository like Debian is doing (which hopefully gets enough eyeballs to remain secure) or the https://github.com/crev-dev/cargo-crev project (manually reviewed code) also mentioned. It's interesting that they mention C/C++ just rely on distros providing dynamic libs instead which means you don't even control your dependencies versions, some distro does (how reliable is the distro?)... I wonder if that could work for other languages or if it's just as painful as it looks in the C world.
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I don't care about cookies” extension bought by Avast, users jump ship
For instance, the worst company imaginable may be in charge of software that was once FOSS, and they may change absolutely nothing about it, so it should be fine. However, if a small update is added that does something bad, you should know about it immediately.
The solution seems to be much more clearly in the realm of things like crev: https://github.com/crev-dev/cargo-crev/
Wherein users can get a clear picture of what dependencies are used in the full chain, and how they have been independently reviewed for security and privacy. That's the real solution for the future. A quick score that is available upon display everytime you upgrade, with large warnings for anything above a certain threshold.
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I think there should be some type of crates vertification especially the popular ones?
The metrics on crates.io are a useful sniff test, but ultimately you need to review things yourself, or trust some contributors and reviewers. Some projects, like cargo crev or cargo vet can help with the process.
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[Discussion] What crates would you like to see?
You can use cargo-geiger or cargo-crev to check for whether people you trusted (e.g. u/jonhoo ) trust this crate.
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Pip and cargo are not the same
There is a similar idea being explored with https://github.com/crev-dev/cargo-crev - you trust a reviewer who reviews crates for trustworthiness, as well as other reviewers.
- greater supply chain attack risk due to large dependency trees?
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Why so many basic features are not part of the standard library?
[cargo-crev](https://github.com/crev-dev/cargo-crev) looks like a good step in the right direction but not really commonly used.
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“You meant to install ripgrep”
'cargo crev' makes this kind of workflow possible: https://github.com/crev-dev/cargo-crev
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Difference between cargo-vet and cargo-crev?
The crev folks themselves are no fans of PGP but need a way to security identify that you are in fact the review author, so that's where the id generation comes in. Ultimately crev is just a bunch of repos with text files you sign with IDs. The nice property is that you can chain these together into a web of trust and it's unfortunate that vet doesn't just use the same signed files on repos model as a foundation because even if they don't trust anyone else, we could turn around and trust them.
What are some alternatives?
awesome-rust - A curated list of Rust code and resources.
crates.io - The Rust package registry
meta-rust - OpenEmbedded/Yocto layer for Rust and Cargo
stackage - Stable Haskell package sets: vetted consistent packages from Hackage
docs.rs - crates.io documentation generator
crates.io-index - Registry index for crates.io
namespacing-rfc - RFC for Packages as Optional Namespaces
serde - Serialization framework for Rust
sccache - Sccache is a ccache-like tool. It is used as a compiler wrapper and avoids compilation when possible. Sccache has the capability to utilize caching in remote storage environments, including various cloud storage options, or alternatively, in local storage.
cargo-msrv - 🦀 Find the minimum supported Rust version (MSRV) for your project
sled - the champagne of beta embedded databases
Rustup - The Rust toolchain installer