It would be super useful if the plugin could specify a recompilation policy.
Possible useful policies I can think if could be
- Always recompile
- Recompile if arguments/configuration changes
- Recompile if plugin defined state changes
- Default rustc behavior
Either of these policies may then also apply to dependencies or the workspace.
A definition of a policy could look something like this
enum RecompilationPolicy<Plugin> {
/// Recompile every time the tool is run
Always,
/// Spiritually the same as `WhenStateChanges(Hash::hash)`
WhenArgsChange,
/// Recompile when the state changes. Change here is defined as the
/// arguments and potentially external state (hence the function pointer to
/// fetch external state) hashes to a new value.
///
/// Can also be used to only depend on a subset of the arguments.
WhenStateChanges(for<'a> fn (&'a Plugin::Args) -> u64),
Rustc
}
Then RustcPluginArgs could have two fields for the recompilation policy for the workspace and the dependencies respectively, both of type RecompilationPolicy.
It would be super useful if the plugin could specify a recompilation policy.
Possible useful policies I can think if could be
Either of these policies may then also apply to dependencies or the workspace.
A definition of a policy could look something like this
Then
RustcPluginArgscould have two fields for the recompilation policy for the workspace and the dependencies respectively, both of typeRecompilationPolicy.