Re: [Libguestfs] New Rust bindings for nbdkit

On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 04:19:08PM -0600, alan somers wrote: > The existing Rust bindings for nbdkit aren't very idiomatic Rust, and they > are missing a lot of features. So I've rewritten them. The new bindings > aren't backwards compatible, but I doubt that's a problem. Most likely, > nobody has tried to use them yet, since the crate hasn't even published to > crates.io. Please review the attached patch. > -Alan Thanks Alan, and sorry for the delayed reply. It just happened that this email arrived before a long weekend. First a note that it was a bit of a manual process for me to apply this because I think it was prepared using "git diff"(?) If you use "git format-patch" or (better) "git send-email" for future patches then that's much easier. However I was able to apply and review it. I have pushed it, but added a few changes which I will summarise below: * Some lines had trailing whitespace, removed. These are only allowed in POD where it is used for verbatim sections. * In VERSION docs we usually refer only to stable (even-numbered) releases, so I replaced 1.21.9 -> 1.22. * Remove plugins/rust/Cargo.toml from .gitignore. * Several newly added files were missing from EXTRA_DIST (make && make dist && make maintainer-check-extra-dist will find these in future). This will create small rebase problems for you if you've made further changes, but hopefully nothing that isn't easily fixable. Other issues: * The license removed this clause: -// * Neither the name of Red Hat nor the names of its contributors may be -// used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without -// specific prior written permission. I believe this removal simply makes the license even more permissive, so that's fine. However I will check with our legal people. Also you should add license headers to the new files plugins/rust/tests/*.rs. Essentially every file should have a license, and correct licensing is very important to us. * Although the build works (or doesn't break), make check doesn't appear to run the tests. Rich.