docopt_macros stability

[johnzachary]

We are enthusiastic users of docopt and docopt_macros in our Rust project. However, the latter has been failing to build, both for stable and nightly Rust releases. Right now, we are using nightly-2015-12-13. Should we hang tight and expect things to be fixed soon or will this take a big effort to address?

[BurntSushi]

The last attempt at fixing it was #161

Then this happened: rust-lang/rust@95dc7e --- It looks like a big breaking change and there's really no guidance at all on how to fix the fallout. cc @nrc

I spent an hour or so a few days ago trying to patch up the macro, but it looks like rustc's parser's error handling has changed dramatically. I haven't grok'd it yet.

FYI, docopt_macros has never compiled on Rust stable because compiler plugins are only available on the nightly released.

I intend to fix this, I'm just not quite sure when. PRs are appreciated. :-)

[johnzachary]

Thank you for the update. It's quite helpful.

[BurntSushi]

Fixed by #163 from @nrc. Yay! I've updated docopt_macros on crates.io.

[johnzachary]

@BurntSushi Awesome! Thanks.

[TeXitoi]

@BurntSushi this issue should be closed, no?