Allow arbitrary Horn clauses for inter-feature dependencies.
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Description
Sometimes it makes sense to enable feature Z if both features Y and feature Z are enabled. Simple example: #6658
[dependencies]
krate = { optional = true, version = "1.2.3" }
[features]
bar = []
foo = [ "krate" ]
"foo+bar" = [ "krate/bar" ]
Another example pops up in native library bindings:
name = "libB-sys"
[dependencies]
libA-sys = { optional = true, version = "4.5.6" } # libA is used by libB to do featX
[features]
vendored = [] # Build the bundled copy of the library instead of using the system one
featX = []
"vendored+featX" = "libA-sys"
It may also make sense to have clauses where resolution fails:
[features]
"do-it-this-way+do-it-that-way" = false
Note that this does not permit requirements of the form "featX or featY must be enabled". The naive algorithm that only enables a feature when all prerequisites are enabled still works (https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~rak/papers/kowalski-van_emden.pdf, the "model intersection property")
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First steps
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Research direction
No implementation files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by tracing Cargo's feature and dependency-resolution logic, then define how conjunction clauses and clauses that fail resolution should be represented and evaluated; done means the TOML examples resolve as described without adding disjunctive requirements.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- build-system
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100