Re: [libgpiod][PATCH V9 0/8] libgpiod: Add Rust bindings

[Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 11:55 AM Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 17-11-22, 11:48, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > Let me propose a different solution. When preparing release tarballs
> > with autotools, certain files are generated automatically that go into
> > the tarball but are never part of the repository. This way developers
> > don't have to deal with the automatically generated files polluting
> > the repo while end-users get a tarball with less dependencies and
> > reproducible results.
> >
> > It's called the dist-local hook in automake.
> >
> > Does it sound like something we could use here?
>
> These auto-generated bindings are used only by the code present in
> bindings/rust/libgpiod/src/, and are never visible to end user code.
>
> The end user will use the new interface provided by the libgpiod Rust bindings
> instead and that works over the web and will be picked from libgpiod's git tree
> or crates.io (later).
>
> Not sure how the tarball solution will work here.
>

So it already only impacts developers exclusively and not users who'd
for example want to install libgpiod from crates.io? If so then I
don't really see a reason to keep those files in the repo really.

I'm not familiar with rust-vmm containers but the fact that bindgen
support is missing or causes problems sounds like a problem with
rust-vmm and not users of bindgen, right?

Bart