Regression in astar-0.1.1, Rust 1.17

[brson]

brian@ip-10-145-43-250:~/dev/astar⟫ git remote -v
origin  https://github.com/TyOverby/astar (fetch)
origin  https://github.com/TyOverby/astar (push)
brian@ip-10-145-43-250:~/dev/astar⟫ git log -1
commit 1a2edf90779a317d61bd747d24ba948ded522590
Merge: 1dcc942 fa4d420
Author: Ty Overby <ty@pre-alpha.com>
Date:   Sun Dec 18 22:50:01 2016 -0800

    Merge pull request #7 from andrewcsmith/master

    A few simplifications

127 brian@ip-10-145-43-250:/mnt2/dev⟫ rustc +nightly -Vv
rustc 1.17.0-nightly (be760566c 2017-02-28)
binary: rustc
commit-hash: be760566cf938d11d34c2f6bd90d8fd0f67c2344
commit-date: 2017-02-28
host: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
release: 1.17.0-nightly
LLVM version: 3.9

brian@ip-10-145-43-250:~/dev/astar⟫ cargo +nightly test
    Updating registry `https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index`
 Downloading typed-arena v1.2.0
 Downloading num v0.1.37
 Downloading num-bigint v0.1.36
 Downloading num-iter v0.1.33
 Downloading num-complex v0.1.36
 Downloading num-traits v0.1.37
 Downloading num-integer v0.1.33
 Downloading num-rational v0.1.36
   Compiling num-traits v0.1.37
   Compiling libc v0.2.20
   Compiling rustc-serialize v0.3.22
   Compiling typed-arena v1.2.0
   Compiling rand v0.3.15
   Compiling num-integer v0.1.33
   Compiling num-iter v0.1.33
   Compiling num-complex v0.1.36
   Compiling num-bigint v0.1.36
   Compiling num-rational v0.1.36
   Compiling num v0.1.37
   Compiling astar v0.1.1 (file:///mnt2/dev/astar)
error[E0282]: type annotations needed
  --> src/test.rs:67:44
   |
67 |     assert_eq!(p, vec![(0, 0)].into_iter().collect());
   |                                            ^^^^^^^ cannot infer type for `B`

error: aborting due to previous error

error: Could not compile `astar`.
Build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...
error: build failed

Not on 1.16.

cc @TyOverby

[TyOverby]

This is a pretty weird one. The test in question:

#[test]
fn test_start_end() {
    // path() statically returns Option<VecDeque<(i32, i32)>> 
    let p = path((0,0), (0,0)).unwrap();
    assert_eq!(p, vec![(0, 0)].into_iter().collect());
}

Just looking at this, I would expect it to infer that it needs to collect into VecDeque<(i32, i32>, but seeing as assert_eq uses PartialEq, which could be implemented for any T and R, picking a collection type seems undecidable.

Has the implementation of assert_eq changed at all?

[ollie27]

Probably #38661 then.

[alexcrichton]

@TyOverby yeah I believe the PR pointed out by @ollie27 likely caused the regression here as there's more than one impl available now (or sorta through generics) which means that the compiler can't deduce that the rhs is a vecdeque as well.

[TyOverby]

Yep. That would do it.

[TyOverby]

So what's the process here? I could certainly fix and publish Astar, but is this considered a "libs breaking change"?

[alexcrichton]

@TyOverby we'll discuss this at next libs triage to decide whether we'd like to revert, but my guess is that unless updating is difficult for you we're likely to keep this as-is.

If that ends up being the case, then yeah if you'd like to publish a fix to Astar that'd be great. Please let us know though if that's an inconvenience though as it will affect the discussion of what to do about this change!

[alexcrichton]

Ok the libs team met today and we discussed this issue. Our conclusion was that we'd like to classify this under "acceptable breakage". @TyOverby would it be possible to push an update to the crate in question? If it's difficult to do please just let us know!

[arielb1]

1.17 is now beta

[TyOverby]

@alexcrichton The crate is building now.