On 2018-06-13 09:29, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
On Tue, 2018-06-12 at 19:03 +0100, [email protected] wrote:
On Tue, 2018-06-12 at 11:22 +0300, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
On Mon, 2018-05-28 at 19:37 +0100, [email protected] 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.
No hurry :) Note that I can't alone make the decision to start
converting to Rust. Not everyone might have as good perception of the
language as me (and that perception isn't based on actually trying to
use the language), and not everyone might want to learn it. Arun and
Georg, how do you feel about the prospect of gradually converting the
codebase to Rust some day?
If I had the time and engagement to start working on a new sound server
tomorrow, I would write it in Rust.
But just porting PulseAudio to Rust without solving any issues with
PulseAudio's existing design, does not seem like the best use of time to me.
But should you make the step over to Rust, you're more than welcome to
use my dbus and alsa bindings :-)
// David
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