cargo-minimal-versions

Cargo subcommand for proper use of -Z minimal-versions.

• Usage
• Details
• Installation
• Related Projects
• License

Usage

To check all crates with minimal version dependencies:

sh cargo minimal-versions check --workspace

Normally, crates with publish = false do not need minimal version check. You can skip these crates by using --ignore-private flag.

sh cargo minimal-versions check --workspace --ignore-private

Details

Using -Z minimal-versions in the usual way will not work properly in many cases. To use cargo check with -Z minimal-versions properly, you need to run at least three processes.

If I remember correctly, cargo check -Z minimal-versions doesn't really do anything. It needs to be separated into cargo update -Z minimal-versions and cargo check.

Also, dev-dependencies may raise version requirements. Ideally, remove them before run cargo update -Z minimal-versions. (Also, note that Cargo.lock is actually shared within the workspace. However as far as I know, there is no workaround for this yet.)

In addition, due to cargo's feature integration, it is not correct to run cargo check or cargo build with -p (--package) or --workspace (--all) or on virtual manifest. To handle this problem correctly, you need the workspace handling provided by subcommands such as cargo hack.

cargo-minimal-versions addresses most of these issues and makes it easy to run cargo commands with -Z minimal-versions.

See #1 for the remaining problem.

Installation

Prerequisites

cargo-minimal-versions requires nightly toolchain (to run cargo update -Z minimal-versions) and [cargo-hack] (to run cargo check & cargo build proper):

sh rustup toolchain add nightly cargo install cargo-hack

From source

sh cargo install cargo-minimal-versions

Compiler support: requires rustc 1.56+

From prebuilt binaries

You can download prebuilt binaries from the Release page. Prebuilt binaries are available for macOS, Linux (gnu and musl), and Windows (static executable).

On GitHub Actions

You can use taiki-e/install-action to install prebuilt binaries on Linux, macOS, and Windows. This makes the installation faster and may avoid the impact of problems caused by upstream changes.

yaml - uses: taiki-e/install-action@cargo-hack - uses: taiki-e/install-action@cargo-minimal-versions

Via Homebrew

You can install cargo-minimal-versions using Homebrew tap on macOS and Linux:

sh brew install taiki-e/tap/cargo-minimal-versions

Via Scoop (Windows)

You can install cargo-minimal-versions using Scoop:

sh scoop bucket add taiki-e https://github.com/taiki-e/scoop-bucket scoop install cargo-minimal-versions

Via cargo-binstall

You can install cargo-minimal-versions using cargo-binstall:

sh cargo binstall cargo-minimal-versions

Related Projects

• [cargo-hack]: Cargo subcommand to provide various options useful for testing and continuous integration.
• [cargo-llvm-cov]: Cargo subcommand to easily use LLVM source-based code coverage.

License

Licensed under either of Apache License, Version 2.0 or MIT license at your option.

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.