commit 74c767af29e793749e697eba8a206850b156521e Author: Nick Mathewson nickm@torproject.org Date: Tue Mar 20 07:58:29 2018 -0400

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 d0b17c160..ad8cd9d04 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 ---------------