On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 11:14:11AM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote: > On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 12:19:21PM +0200, Sahid Orentino Ferdjaoui wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I started a work on a libvirt binding for Rust [0]. Not all of the API > > is implemeted but I think it's now in a usable state. > > > > https://docs.rs/crate/virt > > https://github.com/sahid/libvirt-rs > > > > The code is licensed under LGPL-2.1, it's tested by a CI running > > libvirt 1.2.0, 2.5.0, 3.3.0. There are unit tests, integration tests > > and some examples to exercise the code (some parts are still not > > covered) I also have checked the code with valgrind to avoid any > > memory leaks. > > > > https://travis-ci.org/sahid/libvirt-rs > > > > This is nice, I am thinking of trying to add a module support for > modules written in Rust, but that's just a fun project. > > Anyway, if I may give you an advice, it would be way nicer if some of > the bindings were automatically generated. Libvirt provides all the > infomartion necessary in libvirt{,-qemu-lxc}.xml files for you to be > able to do this. We already do this for the python bindings, for > example. That way they automatically support trivial function additions > in newer libvirt versions. It's certainly something we can do with a tool like [0], and you can see an example of the API extracted here [1]. But the point of that work is to provide for users a way to avoid to interact with unsafe code. [0] https://github.com/servo/rust-bindgen [1] https://docs.rs/libvirt-sys/1.2.18/libvirt_sys/ > > Do you think that we can consider it ready to be hosted by libvirt.org > > GIT server ? That could help to get new contributors also interested > > by Rust and improve the code and coverage of the API. > > > > Thanks, > > s. > > > > -- > > libvir-list mailing list > > libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
