rust-lang / rust-lang/rustup

Remove `RUSTUP_TRACE_DIR` unstable feature

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Description

Problem you are trying to solve

https://rust-lang.github.io/rustup/environment-variables.html lists this feature. But the Catapult tracing tool it requires is long archived (for 4 years). As the feature is still unstable, perhaps remove it?

I don't know what tracing is done but logging and OS-afforded tracing can be done on rustup. Does that cover its original use case?

Solution you'd like

Remove unstable, derelict features to increase maintainability.

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Research direction

Start by searching the repository for RUSTUP_TRACE_DIR and compare its uses with the environment-variables documentation page. Determine whether the feature has implementation or test references; done means the obsolete unstable feature and its documentation entry are removed consistently.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
tooling
Issue type
Refactor
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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