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- I have checked the latest
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branch to see if this has already been fixed - I have searched existing issues and pull requests for duplicates
URL to the section(s) of the book with this problem:
https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/ch14-03-cargo-workspaces.html#depending-on-an-external-package-in-a-workspace
Description of the problem:
The book states that the top-level Cargo.lock
file in a workspace ensures that all crates in the workspace use the same version of dependencies. It uses the crate rand
as an example. It further states the same thing again, and that "no additional copies of rand
will be downloaded." I've set the adder
crate to use rand 0.7.3
and the add_one
crate to use rand 0.8.3
, then built the workspace. In my workspace's Cargo.lock
file, there is now rand 0.7.3
and rand 0.8.5
, and the output log on cargo build
showed that it compiled the second version of rand
.
Suggested fix:
The current text is either not clear enough to describe how dependency versioning is handled within a workspace, or the description is incorrect. I don't know what the correct behavior should be, but what I'm seeing from my workspace is contradicting what I'm reading in the book.