cargo list not showing my installed command

[FrankC01]

Problem

From my package folder I run
cargo install cargo-solana --path .

It installs, I test it elsewhere.... everything is hunky dory. However; when I run:

cargo --list I see

    search               Search packages in crates.io
    solana
    t                    alias: test

My command description is blank (as apposed to the surrounding commands

Steps

1. git clone https://github.com/FrankC01/cargo-solana
2. cd cargo-solana
3. cargo install cargo-solana --path .
4. cargo --list

Possible Solution(s)

No response

Notes

No response

Version

cargo 1.58.0 (f01b232bc 2022-01-19)
release: 1.58.0
commit-hash: f01b232bc7f4d94f0c4603930a5a96277715eb8c
commit-date: 2022-01-19
host: x86_64-apple-darwin
libgit2: 1.3.0 (sys:0.13.23 vendored)
libcurl: 7.77.0 (sys:0.4.51+curl-7.80.0 system ssl:(SecureTransport) LibreSSL/2.8.3)
os: Mac OS 12.2.1 [64-bit]

[weihanglo]

Thank for the report! Unluckily, cargo doesn't know about what and how to display the description of external commands. Even cargo clippy and cargo fmt are hardcoded. There was an attempt to fix this issue, and Alex explained the situation very clear,

"...we'll want to look for a solution that both works and satisfies the constraints of maintainability in Cargo."

It would be great if you have a viable solution to share! 😄

[FrankC01]

OK, thanks for the update and references. I will take a look at the code specifically in the install/uninstall space and give you my thoughts if not a PR.

[weihanglo]

Hi. There is a new feature request #10662, and it gets a reference implementation. I am going to close this one. If you are still interested in this feature, we can move further discussions there. Thanks for your report!