Thoughts on a cargo-owned build script API

[epage]

The cargo team is considering an official build script API (rust-lang/cargo#12432). We are looking at adopting build-rs package, mostly because the author reached out to us.

We'd be interested in input on this

• Any concern over an official API and any particular package / package name being adopted
• Feedback on API design choices (e.g. I see build_script allows deferred printing, custom sinks, custom instructions, etc but its no clear why)
• Thoughts on the role of cargo's crate and this crate moving forward (e.g. would you be interested in joining efforts and helping out with cargos?)