To replicate: run cargo install pijul --version "~1.0.0-alpha"

Expected results: a recent version of pijul installed

Actual results: several hundred errors. At least a hundred uses of the attribute clap without it being in scope, at least 50 functions called with the wrong number of arguments, and a few calls to nonexistent functions.

What is your version of rust environment?

I belive you should update rust first.

I was on rustc 1.58.0-nightly (b416e3892 2021-11-13), but updating to rustc 1.59.0-nightly (6bda5b331 2021-12-12) has no effect on this issue.

Yeah, clap again.

Try to downgrade to stable 1.57 and try again.

Same with 1.57.

I used this procedure to get the current version from nest running on my computer:

1. Use cargo-download to download pijul 1.0.0-alpha.56 and unpack it with tar
2. Edit Cargo.toml and change the clap version to 3.0.0-rc.4
3. cargo build (strangely: the build issue reoccurs if I attempt a release build)
4. Use ./target/debug/pijul to clone pijul from nest
5. cd pijul/pijul; cargo install --path . --features=default,git

Leaving open for now as this is quite a complicated workaround.

I confirm pijul alpha.56 can not be installed from crates because of clap errors.

@pmeunier must take a care.

This is already fixed in main, so it seems like the next alpha version publishing is needed.

That workaround isn’t working for me, so until it’s fixed, does anyone have a tarball of main I could use?

If you need a workaround, the one by @quickdudley nearly works. You need to stick to clap in version 3.0.0-beta.5

Thus:

cargo download pijul=1.0.0-alpha.56 | tar -xz
cd pijul-1.0.0-alpha.56
vim Cargo.toml
# replace `[dependencies.clap] version = "3.0.0-beta.5"` with `[dependencies.clap] version = "=3.0.0-beta.5"`
# the "equals" sign prevents from using release-candidate versions of clap, which have a little different API
cargo build
# and then `cargo install <options you need>`, I haven't tried, but it should work

cargo install --locked seems to work, with some warnings about yanked packages though so it’s not ideal.

Fixed! I just published 1.0.0-alpha.57. Thanks for the report!