Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I'm publishing an about page for someone else's repository - https://github.com/Syn-Nine/rust-mini-games - which I've added a workspace to in my fork. Individual crates don't specify package license metadata, but there is a single LICENSE-MIT in the root. To support referencing the original license file, I'd like to make a stub package in the root of the repository - in the same directory as the root of my workspace - that serves no other purpouse than to reference the license file.
However, by doing this, cargo about no longer generates license metadata for the entire workspace - but only the empty stub package.
Describe the solution you'd like
Adding a --workspace flag to cargo about generate could allow cargo about to generate license metadata for the entire workspace, regardless of subdirectory and the presence of a root package or not.
Describe alternatives you've considered
Making 6+ copies of LICENSE-MITs, one for each package, and modifying said individual packages to reference them.
Replacing individual package tomls with a single package and workspace.
Making 1 copy of LICENSE-MIT in another subdirectory, and putting the package there.
Inlining LICENSE-MIT into my about.hbs (my current solution)
Making the stub package depend on all the other packages (they're all bin-only though)
Proposing a mechanism like [[DEPENDENCY.additional]], only for ambient dependencies outside the scope of any individual crate.
Most of these all involve more awkward/invasive changes - I'm trying to keep my fork as close to the (relatively unresponsive) upstream as possible.
Jake-Shadle
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3 years ago
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I'm publishing an about page for someone else's repository - https://github.com/Syn-Nine/rust-mini-games - which I've added a workspace to in my fork. Individual crates don't specify package license metadata, but there is a single
LICENSE-MITin the root. To support referencing the original license file, I'd like to make a stub package in the root of the repository - in the same directory as the root of my workspace - that serves no other purpouse than to reference the license file.However, by doing this,
cargo aboutno longer generates license metadata for the entire workspace - but only the empty stub package.Describe the solution you'd like Adding a
--workspaceflag tocargo about generatecould allowcargo aboutto generate license metadata for the entire workspace, regardless of subdirectory and the presence of a root package or not.Describe alternatives you've considered
LICENSE-MITs, one for each package, and modifying said individual packages to reference them.LICENSE-MITin another subdirectory, and putting the package there.LICENSE-MITinto myabout.hbs(my current solution)[[DEPENDENCY.additional]], only for ambient dependencies outside the scope of any individual crate.Most of these all involve more awkward/invasive changes - I'm trying to keep my fork as close to the (relatively unresponsive) upstream as possible.