Compilation error with url 2.5.3 / idna 1.0.3 with Rust < 1.81 and edition 2021 (resolver 2) when sqlx-core < 0.8.3 is in the dependency graph

[TotalKrill]

Edited by @hsivonen to put resolution options at the top for folks who come here:

To resolve this compilation error, update SQLx to 0.8.3 and/or update Rust to 1.81 or later.

This compilation error is due to a combination of:

1. SQLx unnecessarily turning off the default features of url, and from a proc macro context specifically. (Request for SQLx not to do that: Please do not turn off default features for url transact-rs/sqlx#3589)
2. url 2.5.3 (and idna 1.0.3) conditionally raising MSRV to 1.81 when default features are off (from no_std support for the url crate #831). Conditionally raising MSRV to 1.81 is not a semver break, because raising MSRV isn't a semver break.
3. resolver = "2", which is implied by edition = "2021" performing feature resolution for proc macro dependencies separately from normal dependencies, so a normal dependency on url with default features enabled does not cause default features to be enabled for the proc macro case.

Original report follows:

• Note that this crate implements the URL Standard not RFC 1738 or RFC 3986

Describe the bug

After update to v1.0.3 wich is picked up automatically since its a patch upgrade, our code no longer compiles the same.

rust versions tested:

• rustc 1.80.1
• rustc 1.81.0

   Compiling idna v1.0.3
error[E0658]: use of unstable library feature 'error_in_core'
  --> /home/krille/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-6f17d22bba15001f/idna-1.0.3/src/lib.rs:78:6
   |
78 | impl core::error::Error for Errors {}
   |      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   |
   = note: see issue #103765 <https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/103765> for more information

[valenting]

@TotalKrill
Is your crate depending on idna directly with default-features = false.
Or is the issue url failing to propagate the std feature to idna?

[TotalKrill]

We are depending on url, not idna directly

[TotalKrill]

@valenting seems i was wrong about 1.81.0, seems to work there...

[hsivonen]

Are you depending on url with default-features = false?

I tried to repro on 1.80.1, and the following compiles:

rustup default 1.80
cargo new --bin testurl
cd testurl
cargo add url
cargo build

[TotalKrill]

we have a workspace, but we only depend on url like this: url = "2.5.0"

[TotalKrill]

running cargo tree -i url -f "{p} {f}"

this is what our tree ends up including, with two different versions of URL included, probably by one of our other deps.

• url v2.5.3 default,serde,std
• url v2.5.3

Edit: I meant version 2.5.3, 2.5.0 is the version that compiles

[hsivonen]

url 2.5.0 and url 2.5.2 depended on idna 0.5. url 2.5.1 depended on idna 1.0.

The introduction of no_std support to url in 2.5.3 and the introduction of core::error::Error to idna in 1.0.3 was intended not to change MSRV to 1.81 with default features but was expected to change MSRV to 1.81 for default-features = false users.

Do you somehow have url 2.5.1 in your dependency graph? Can you force Cargo to take url 2.5.3 in its place?

[TotalKrill]

Oh sorry, I am currently forcing our software to take 2.5.0, since 2.5.3 does not compile. Updated the previous comment to show that the cargo tree command showed 2.5.3

[hsivonen]

So if you have url 2.5.3 without features and url 2.5.3 with the feature std, Cargo should unify those to one copy of url with the feature std. Are you sure the edited comment about cargo tree is correct?

Aside: This isn't specific to idna. If I use Rust 1.80.1 with:

[dependencies]
url = { version = "2.5.3", default-features = false }
idna = "1"

...idna compiles and the compilation of url fails with a complaint about impl core::error::Error for ParseError {} in url.

[TotalKrill]

yep, my edited comment stands. But with what you say, something else might be changing to default-features = false

[hsivonen]

As long as something in your dependency graph depends on url without setting default-features = false, something else setting default-features = false shouldn't matter.

@Twixes, GitHub autolinks a couple of your changesets referencing this issue. Do you have minimized steps to reproduce?