Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH] Add Rust bindings

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