# A GUI for Cargo
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This is a project to make a GUI for cargo, built using [SixtyFPS](https://github.com/sixtyfpsui/sixtyfps):
## The idea
```sh
cargo install cargo-ui
cargo ui
```
## Prerequisites
In addition to a working cargo and Rust installation, a few other tools are needed:
Windows:
* A working C compiler (such as MSVC)
* [CMake](https://cmake.org/download/) installed in your `PATH`
macOS:
* "Xcode Command Line Tools" need to be installed: `xcode-select --install`
* [CMake](https://cmake.org/download/) installed and in your `PATH`. In the CMake
GUI application instructions can be found via `Tools->How to Install For Command Line Use`.
## Style
The default style from SixtyFPS is the `ugly` style. But the interface looks much
nicer using the `native` style as this has native controls and images.
To install using the native style, use
```sh
SIXTYFPS_STYLE=native cargo install
```
The use of the native style requires Qt 5.15, see https://github.com/sixtyfpsui/sixtyfps/blob/master/docs/install_qt.md
## Vision
Some ideas for features:
- [x] Choose the binary to run or the lib to build or the test to run
- [x] Display the errors in a nice way
- [x] Select the debug or release mode
- [ ] Select the toolchain (nightly, stable, ...)
- [ ] Maybe integrate with rustup to update the toolchain or install new one
- [ ] See the dependencies as an expendable tree
- [ ] Show duplicated dependencies
- [ ] Show outdated dependencies, with button to easily update
- [ ] Ability to easily add dependency (by searching the crates.io index)
- [ ] Edit features of dependencies from a list.
- [ ] Show asm, llvm-ir, ...
- [ ] Show build progress and be able to cancel the build
- [ ] Edit other metadata of the the Cargo.toml (edition, author, ...)
- [ ] Manage workspaces and do batch edit of the metadata on all members
- [ ] Have a "playground" tab which allow to easily try rust code
- [ ] A publish tab which publishes all the crates in the workspace in the right order
- [ ] Double-click on a `Cargo.toml` file would also run cargo-ui.
- [ ] ...
## License
The source code of Cargo UI is available under the terms of both the MIT license
and the Apache License (Version 2.0).
(See [LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE) and [LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT) for details.)
However, because of the use of GPL dependencies, cargo-ui, as a whole, is licensed
under the terms of the GPLv3 (See [LICENSE-GPL](LICENSE-GPL))
