rust-lang / rust-lang/rust-clippy
Detect dependencies that are in Cargo.toml but not used in the crate
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Description
idea from https://twitter.com/eddyb_r/status/1082458713640841221
Basically detect discrepancies between the --extern flags and everything being loaded by the current crate via extern crate or implicitly in Rust 2018
related: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy/issues/1892
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the issue's proposal and the related rust-clippy issue 1892. Investigate how Cargo.toml dependencies, compiler --extern flags, explicit extern crate declarations, and implicit Rust 2018 loading are represented. Done should mean reliably identifying declared dependencies that are not used by the current crate, with behavior defined for both edition styles.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- devtools, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100