Meg (@[email protected])
social.treehouse.systems
hoooooly shit the new version of serde_derive includes a pre-built executable and has no official way to turn that off? Wtaf. https://github.com/serde-rs/serde/issues/2538 #rustlang

So, serde seems to be downloading and running a binary on the system without informing the user and without any user consent. Does anyone have any background information on why this is, and how this is supposed to be a good idea?

dtolnay seems like a smart guy, so I assume there is a reason for this, but it doesn’t feel ok at all.

  • @BB_C
    5•10 months ago
    bsdtar tfv ᐸ(curl -sL https://static.crates.io/crates/serde_derive/serde_derive-1.0.183.crate)

    Edit: Ogh, using ᐸ which is a replacement character because Lemmy escapes the real one. This is annoying.

    There, you will see that this file exists:

    -rwxr-xr-x  0 0      0      690320 Jul 24  2006 serde_derive-1.0.183/serde_derive-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

    Yes, that’s a pre-built binary in the crate source release. It’s that bad.

    • TehPers
      1•10 months ago

      Looks like I missed that, I was checking locally but I must have been checking an outdated version of the package. I’d feel better about it if it compiled on the user’s machine, which is the impression I was getting.