On Mon, 2018-05-28 at 19:37 +0100, jnqnfe at gmail.com wrote: > Hi everyone! > > Back in February I released 'binding' and 'sys' crates for using > pulseaudio from Rust code. I had intended to make an announcement here > at the time, but I failed to do so, so I'm doing it now. > > fyi, the 'sys' crates provide a simple description of the C interface; > The 'binding' crates take this further, providing a cleaner/safer Rust > interface. > > I have provided separate crates for each PA system library (per Rust > guidelines for 'sys' crates), thus totalling six in all: > > [binding crates] > - libpulse-binding: https://crates.io/crates/libpulse-binding > - libpulse-simple-binding: https://crates.io/crates/libpulse-simple-bi > nding > - libpulse-mainloop-glib-binding: https://crates.io/crates/libpulse-gl > ib-binding > [sys crates] > - libpulse-sys: https://crates.io/crates/libpulse-sys > - libpulse-simple-sys: https://crates.io/crates/libpulse-simple-sys > - libpulse-mainloop-glib-sys: https://crates.io/crates/libpulse-mainlo > op-glib-sys > > The 'binding' crates include plenty of documentation (taken from the C > API). This can be built locally of course (cargo doc), but is also > available online at docs.rs, example: https://docs.rs/libpulse-binding/ > > Long term I hope that the owners of the PA project itself would like to > take over ownership and maintenance. Even longer term hopefully we will > see PA itself converting to Rust - fyi the PA projects has my full > consent to use this work of mine in converting PA itself. Cool, thanks for the bindings! I'm afraid you'll have to keep maintaining the bindings yourself for the foreseeable future - I don't really want to take more work for myself at this point (I can of course only talk only for myself, but I don't expect the other maintainers to be enthusiastically adopting the bindings either). That said, converting PA to Rust might very well be a good idea. From what I've heard about combining Rust with C, such conversion could be done gradually. -- Tanu https://liberapay.com/tanuk https://www.patreon.com/tanuk
