On Tue, 2018-06-12 at 11:22 +0300, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > 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-simpl > > e-bi > > nding > > - libpulse-mainloop-glib-binding: https://crates.io/crates/libpuls > > e-gl > > ib-binding > > [sys crates] > > - libpulse-sys: https://crates.io/crates/libpulse-sys > > - libpulse-simple-sys: https://crates.io/crates/libpulse-simple-sy > > s > > - libpulse-mainloop-glib-sys: https://crates.io/crates/libpulse-ma > > inlo > > 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-bind > > ing/ > > > > 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. Ok no problem :) I am very glad to hear that you are open to a Rust conversion. I'm very busy at the moment, but I have given a little thought to it over the past few days; perhaps I will try to tackle it at some point.
