Problem

In a workspace with default-members set, cargo run --bin considers only these members as expected. However, when specifying another workspace binary without -p, the error message is unhelpful, because it doesn't hint which package needs to be selected.

Steps

cargo run --bin other where the binary is in the workspace, but not in the default workspace member.

Possible Solution(s)

The error message could search other crates in the workspace and list which have a binary with the given name.

Notes

No response

Version

cargo 1.83.0-nightly (c1fa840a8 2024-08-29)
release: 1.83.0-nightly
commit-hash: c1fa840a85eca53818895901a53fae34247448b2
commit-date: 2024-08-29
host: aarch64-apple-darwin
libgit2: 1.8.1 (sys:0.19.0 vendored)
libcurl: 8.7.1 (sys:0.4.74+curl-8.9.0 system ssl:(SecureTransport) LibreSSL/3.3.6)
ssl: OpenSSL 1.1.1w  11 Sep 2023
os: Mac OS 15.0.0 [64-bit]