Tracking: issues/improvements

[Calsign]

I have a private list of issues and improvements for this project. For visibility I am moving that list here. This list is non-exhaustive, and I may change it in the future.

Features:

• Support rust protobuf rules
• Remove targets when sources are deleted (maybe only with gazelle fix)
• Use mod declarations to inform default generated target structure (relevant: A question about the structure of generated targets #13)
  • Support module discovery for lib.rs crate roots #25
• Support crate_universe direct dependencies by parsing the bzlmod lockfile

Improvements:

• Check in protobuf codegen so users don't have to build all of protoc
• Parse multiple sources in parallel within a package
• Switch from protobuf to prost
  • Switch from rust-protobuf to prost #24
• Upstream patch to gazelle for unused dependency detection
• Publish releases

Issues:

• Glob imports (e.g. use some_crate::prelude::*) may introduce modules that aren't tracked by gazelle_rust
• Overrides from gazelle:resolve are never added to proc_macro_deps (no-panic crate is not recognized #6 (comment))
• Dependencies in macros like println! aren't detected
  • Analyze macros #28

If you would like to discuss a particular item from this list, feel free to open a new issue.