Rust programs may want to generate assets/products which aren't for the build itself, but are products to be used along with the program, such as: bash_completion files manpages and other auto-generated documentation .service files for setting up servers under systemd icon/resource files compiled …

Pre-RFC: generating assets/products during Cargo build

kornel September 25, 2019, 12:42pm 11

I think filesystem access from proc macros is a controversial issue. There were suggestions to completely sandbox them.

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