librustc: Remove the ability for extern crate to specify crate IDs.
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Issue rust-lang#14468. After a snapshot, it will be possible to remove the `extern crate foo = STRING` syntax in favor of the new `extern crate foo = IDENT`. This will break crates that have names that are not valid Rust identifiers (in particular, those that contain hyphens). Change such crates to have names that correspond to valid Rust identifiers. (Most commonly, this will involve changing hyphens to underscores.) [breaking-change]
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The corresponding RFC for this is rust-lang/rfcs#109, and this should probably wait for that to be merged. |
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Also, the RFC should be mentioned in the commit message. Something to do during the rebase. |
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The RFC has been accepted now, and the relevant section for this issue dictates that the syntax is still |
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Superseded by #15319 |
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Issue #14468.
After a snapshot, it will be possible to remove the
extern crate foo = STRINGsyntax in favor of the newextern crate foo = IDENT.This will break crates that have names that are not valid Rust
identifiers (in particular, those that contain hyphens). Change such
crates to have names that correspond to valid Rust identifiers. (Most
commonly, this will involve changing hyphens to underscores.)
[breaking-change]
r? @brson
This may require an RFC to be merged first, but I wanted to go ahead and get the work done.