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damb opened this issue · 6 comments
Hi there,
what's the current status of this project? Are you planning to implement a feature complete safe interface?
@acarapetis I recall you showing an interest in maintaining libmseed-sys and this crate at one point. I'm wondering if you can comment on the status of the project as a whole. Is it safe and suitable as a dependency in new projects? It seems like this crate just needs some further interface implementation of the existing FFI provided by libmseed-sys to be more complete.
@jnuss, since I didn't receive any response, I decided to continue working on this fork of libmseed-sys. Once my recent changes are merged, it would be pretty much ready to go.
Also, for the time being it would be ok for me to maintain a version of the libmseed-sys crate. Alternatively, I could help somebody out.
Thanks @damb for taking this on. I'm looking for some support for writing records but the higher-level miniseed crate doesn't seem to have any. Can the libmseed-sys crate be used directly for this, or is it recommended to add a new implementation in the miniseed crate instead?
I'm still fairly new to Rust. However, usually implementing a safe interface on top of a -sys crate is the way to go. This way the unsafe code is hidden by the safe interface and the client code isn't cluttered with unsafe blocks.
Originally, I was hoping that this crate here (i.e. miniseed) would implement a feature complete interface. Though, since I didn't receive any response and this crate here still seems to be a draft implementation I started to work on another implementation. I didn't make it public yet and it is still missing a lot of features. However, if you give me a few days I could both make it public and help you with implementing the writing facilities.
@jnuss, would this help you?
@damb thank you for the offer to help with the writing functionality. It seems that previous miniseed crates/repos have been abandoned so it makes sense to proceed with a new fork and add functionality as needed. I am happy to assist too but have limited experience with FFI/safe wrapper interfaces.
Ok. I updated the libmseed-sys fork. Besides, I made the safe interface I was working on public: https://github.com/damb/mseed. Let's continue any discussions in the dedicated repos.