From 3ceeb89490343bd1abac45df5745c88ce9f2853f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lars Wirzenius Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2021 10:58:44 +0300 Subject: docs: document Rust as a build dependency Sponsored-by: author --- README.md | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 99be015..dd9240e 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -22,6 +22,16 @@ The Rust dependencies are handled automatically by the Cargo tool on all platforms. The other dependencies are, not including ones needed merely for building Debian packages: +* [Rust](https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install) — the + programming implementation. This can be installed via the standard + Rust installer, `rustup`, or any other way. Obnam does not currently + specify an explicit minimum version of Rust it requires, but its + developers use whatever is the current stable version of the + language. + + On Debian, the `build-essential` package also needs to be installed + to build Rust programs. + * [daemonize](http://software.clapper.org/daemonize/) — a tool for running a command as a daemon in the background; needed for testing, so that the Obnam server can be started and stopped by the -- cgit v1.2.1