circular imports with globs

[steveklabnik]

Issue by jesse99
Sunday Sep 02, 2012 at 20:51 GMT

For earlier discussion, see rust-lang/rust#3352

This issue was labelled with: A-linkage, I-nominated, P-low in the Rust repository

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Given that a crate is the unit of compilation it seems both silly and annoying to not be able to have modules within a crate use each other.

If, for some reason, this is not fixed then the error message should be. It's currently "failed to resolve imports" which provides essentially no insight into where the problem is. Identifying a circular import given that does not sound like fun at all, especially in a large project where the circular imports could be indirect.

[retep998]

This would make implementing winapi significantly easier.

[retep998]

This should have been mostly solved by rust-lang/rust#27547.
Is there anything left to do or is this done?

[alexcrichton]

Indeed, I believe it was solved by that PR, thanks!