dependency loop with borsh and bson

[alexanderkjall]

Not really sure that this is the right place to post this, but here goes:

The following dependencies leads to a loop:

uuid = { version = "1.21.0", features = ["borsh"] }
borsh = { version = "1.6.0", features = ["bson"] }

full reproduction example here: https://github.com/alexanderkjall/rkyv-loop-demo/

[KodrAus]

Hmm, that's pretty unfortunate. We need some way to break the cycle. If there was a smaller core API of borsh we could depend on that was just enough to implement BorshSerialize and BorshDeserialize traits that itself was a dependency of the complete borsh library that would do it.

[alexanderkjall]

I agree, and I guess would be best to try to solve this in collaboration with the other two crates in question. But I have never talked with any of those authors, should I try to ping them here maybe?

[KodrAus]

I've opened near/borsh-rs#363 over in borsh to get some input from the maintainers there. Since this is an issue across multiple crates, I think it'll take some effort on all of our parts to work around it.