From 74c767af29e793749e697eba8a206850b156521e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Mathewson Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 07:58:29 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Note that we require latest stable rust. --- doc/HACKING/CodingStandardsRust.md | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/HACKING/CodingStandardsRust.md b/doc/HACKING/CodingStandardsRust.md index d0b17c1604..ad8cd9d04b 100644 --- a/doc/HACKING/CodingStandardsRust.md +++ b/doc/HACKING/CodingStandardsRust.md @@ -54,13 +54,17 @@ If you have any external modules as dependencies (e.g. `extern crate libc;`), you MUST declare them in your crate's `lib.rs` and NOT in any other module. - Dependencies --------------- + Dependencies and versions +--------------------------- In general, we use modules from only the Rust standard library whenever possible. We will review including external crates on a case-by-case basis. +Currently, Tor requires that you use the latest stable Rust version. At +some point in the future, we will freeze on a given stable Rust version, +to ensure backward compatibility with stable distributions that ship it. + Documentation ---------------