Remove Renames of Internal Packages

[cwfitzgerald]

Internally we currently have the following renames in the codebase:

• wgpu_core -> wgc
• wgpu_hal -> hal
• wgpu_types -> wgt`

This is a thing that can trip up newcomers to the project as the names come from out of nowhere. An uncontroversial first step is to move the aliases from inside the Cargo.toml to in the code, so they can be more easily seen.

We have discussed this at our 2025-01-25 meeting to change to the following:

• wgpu_core (do not rename due to conflict with ::core)
• wgpu_hal -> hal
• wgpu_typtes -> types

[sagudev]

An uncontroversial first step is to move the aliases from inside the Cargo.toml to in the code, so they can be more easily seen.

In servo we currently have something like this and it's a nightmare. Rust-Analyzer does not consider aliases (we have defined them in root create), so all auto imports uses what's written in toml file (do note that servo has interesting integration with RA that might be causing those problems).

[cwfitzgerald]

I'll definitely make sure to give it a test!

[cwfitzgerald]

Thankfully it seems RA deals with it correctly, so that's probably a servo specific thing.

[sagudev]

@ErichDonGubler how will this effect Firefox?

[ErichDonGubler]

@sagudev: We use a Cargo workspace with vendored deps., so I don't think it will change anything on Firefox's end. The best way to find out is to do it, I guess!

[sagudev]

@sagudev: We use a Cargo workspace with vendored deps., so I don't think it will change anything on Firefox's end. The best way to find out is to do it, I guess!

So Firefox will keep current aliases? https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/gfx/wgpu_bindings/Cargo.toml#46