CI broken, due to MSRV of home crate. #1283
Description
CI is currently broken, due to an MSRV bump of the home crate.
Our direct dependency proj has a transitive dependency on the which crate, which in turn depends on this home crate.
Someone recently opened harryfei/which-rs#104, which well summarizes the issue
home is not intended for external use (outside of cargo). home has cargo's automatic MSRV-3 policy, which causes build failures for downstream dependants who check against their MSRV and where the package resolver is not MSRV-aware.
They proposed a fix just yesterday: harryfei/which-rs#105
env-home is a better solution:
- it is intended for external users
- it is the proof of concept to replace env::home_dir: ACP: env::home_dir replacement rust-lang/libs-team#372
- it has a much lower MSRV
- it is MIT or Apache 2.0 licensed (like home)
As a side note, I just learned that rust 2024 intends to have an MSRV aware package resolution, yay!
We can either:
- wait to see if this fix gets merged soon
- pin to an older version of
home - abandon our 6+ month MSRV support window (not my preferred option)
All this to read a couple of env vars 😆