[pulseaudio-discuss] [announce] Rust bindings!

[jnqnfe at gmail.com]

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.