[Libguestfs] [PATCH] Add Rust bindings

[Martin Kletzander]

On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 10:10:10AM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
>On Saturday, 6 July 2019 13:03:24 CEST Martin Kletzander wrote:
>> Just one thing, the Cargo.toml includes a version under which the crate would be
>> published.  I presume the version would be the same as the one of the project
>> itself, i.e. when releasing libguestfs-x.y.z, we publish guestfs-rs-x.y.z to
>> crates.io.
>
>Speaking of naming: it seems like libraries that interface/wrap a
>foreign C/C++/etc library are usually called foo-sys -- so should our
>binding be named guestfs-sys?
>

So you've seen my RFC? =)

Just to guestfs-sys would be a crate that does only two things:

 1) exposes the C functions using `extern`

 2) links to the library

And then another crate (e.g. guestfs) would expose the higher-level, safe,
hopefully idiomatic API.  More information (reasoning etc.) see:

  https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/build-scripts.html#a-sys-packages

Martin

>--
>Pino Toscano


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