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Change in guidance in committing Rust Cargo.lock files

Found on 29 August 2023 via Mastodon 450

via Rust Weekly: Change in Guidance on Committing Lockfiles | Rust Blog

Ed Page on Rust Blog: Change in Guidance on Committing Lockfiles | Rust Blog

(My take: I’ve read the reasons for this change in guidance, but I continue to believe the old guidance was correct. A Cargo.lock file for a library is IMHO worse than not having one because they may lead the library author(s) to falsely assume the dependency versions listed for their library are correct as stated.)

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