Tracking Issue for Rust 2024: rustfmt change sort to Unicode-aware "non-lowercase before lowercase"

[traviscross]

This is a tracking issue for the rustfmt / T-style work needed to change the sort order to Unicode-aware "non-lowercase before lowercase" (from "ASCIIbetical") in Style Edition 2024.

• Import sorting does not handle uppercase/lowercase consistently rustfmt#5269

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Steps

• Implement in nightly Rust 2024.
  • Implement version-sort for imports in style_edition 2024 rustfmt#6284
• Add documentation to the edition guide.
• Add formatting for new syntax to the style guide.
  • See the nightly style procedure.
• Ensure ready for Rust 2024 stabilization.

Unresolved Questions

None.

Implementation history

• Implement version-sort for imports in style_edition 2024 rustfmt#6284

TODO.

cc @rust-lang/rustfmt @rust-lang/style @calebcartwright

[joshtriplett]

@calebcartwright @traviscross Verifying: this is labeled T-style and I-style-nominated, but as far as I know, this is something style already reviewed, approved, and merged into the style guide. I think this is now exclusively a matter for the rustfmt team, right?

[calebcartwright]

@calebcartwright @traviscross Verifying: this is labeled T-style and I-style-nominated, but as far as I know, this is something style already reviewed, approved, and merged into the style guide. I think this is now exclusively a matter for the rustfmt team, right?

Sorry for the delayed response, but I'd agree.

#115046 covered everything we wanted to do, and it's now just down to implementation.

@traviscross the only reason I could think to keep the nominated label is so that this remains as an item that gets pulled in for the weekly check-ins?

[traviscross]

That's right. Being nominated means simply that it will come up on the agenda for discussion. If that's not what we want, then we could unnominate.

However, perhaps we do want these to come up for review every week. On the lang side, we review the priority items for the edition every week, to check in on the status, and something similar seems it may be appropriate here, especially as there is remaining non-implementation work to do for many of these items, e.g. making PRs to the edition guide describing the style (and consequently rustfmt behavior) changes.

With the edition hat on, I'd prefer these to come up every week somewhere until we can mark these off the list, and so if there's not a weekly rustfmt call, then the style call seems the next best place.