# Cargo workspaces for multi-package projects

Minimum Rust version: 1.12

Cargo used to have two levels of organization:

- A package contains one or more crates
- A crate has one or more modules

Cargo now has an additional level:

- A workspace contains one or more packages

This can be useful for larger projects. For example, the `futures` package is a workspace that contains many related packages:

- futures
- futures-util
- futures-io
- futures-channel

and more.

Workspaces allow these packages to be developed individually, but they share a single set of dependencies, and therefore have a single target directory and a single `Cargo.lock`.

For more details about workspaces, please see the Cargo documentation.