config.example.toml: use vendor directory by default when compiling from https://static.rust-lang.org/dist/rustc-1.x.y-src.tar.xz

[dilyanpalauzov]

The file https://static.rust-lang.org/dist/rustc-1.83.0-src.tar.xz — config.example.toml contains

[build]
# Indicate whether the vendored sources are used for Rust dependencies or not.
#
# Vendoring requires additional setup. We recommend using the pre-generated source tarballs if you
# want to use vendoring. See
# https://forge.rust-lang.org/infra/other-installation-methods.html#source-code.
#vendor = false

[dist]
# Whether to vendor dependencies for the dist tarball.
#vendor = if "is a tarball source" || "is a git repository" { true } else { false }

My reading is that the vendor/ directory from rustc-1.83.0-src.tar.xz by default is not used. By default, this directory should be used, when compiling from the .tar file.

[dilyanpalauzov]

… or if the default is false then do not include the vendor/ directory in the stable, distributed tarball.

[bjorn3]

Omitting the vendor directory would make it impossible to do a vendored build when you have an offline build environment. There is something to be said for using vendoring by default when building from a tarball though, although you did still need some manual configuration to set a bootstrap compiler when you want to do an offline build anyway.

[onur-ozkan]

#133853 should handle this. It will take effect in the next nightly release after the merge, but it will take some time for it to reach into the stable release.