Jacob Finkelman

Basically No. The git index is an implementation detail, and one that may change (cc #8890). The main user (that we know of is) of this is crater and they...

I would like to cc some persons: - @klausi you did the implementation and many of the prs to get CI using it, [including hear on cargo](https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/5275). - @illicitonion you...

Well one small peace is done. At this time `cargo publish` from stable pushes the links key.

> Is that still the assumption? That is one of the questions I think we need to address. :-) Hopefully, @alexcrichton and @matklad will have a chance soon to articulate...

Actually I quite like the suggestion, > If you minimal-versions build is broken by log then add a dependency on 'log = "3.10"' to your Cargo.toml. > If you can't...

@matklad in the meantime can it be done in one CI job now with `cargo +nightly generate-lockfile --minimal-versions && cargo +MSRV test`?

This is a list of foundational crates with versions that do not build on modern rust. Purging these from tomls is the "startup cost" of getting `minimal-versions` working. This is...

So @dwijnand asked me to write up how do figure out what to do when a `minimal-versions` CI job fails. So hear gose. 1. Reproduce locally. This involves checking out...

Testing `--minimal-versions` for Cargo on windows was "temporarily" removed in rust-lang/cargo#6748 do to the way [rand](https://github.com/rust-random/rand/issues/741) is broken.

There's still a lot of unanswered questions in this tracking issue. But to make it clear basic functionality from the RFC is implemented and available for testing. The questions are...