Hi Evan, Greg,
sorry for my late response.

I'm fine with having language bindings in the flashrom repository. Especially when a user of those bindings lives also in the repository.
But then we have to find a way to make building everything convenient for developers and distributers.
The other solution would be to create new repositories in gerrit for the bindings and the user of it. This would imply that we fix our api versioning first.

Imo the separate repositories in combination with some gerrit bots might be the best solution to make everyone happy. But I'll support you, Evan, on the solution you will choose.

-- Thomas

On 20 July 2022 01:28:34 CEST, Evan Benn <evanbenn@chromium.org> wrote:
On Tue, 19 Jul 2022 at 03:46, Greg Troxel <gdt@lexort.com> wrote:


 Evan Benn <evanbenn@chromium.org> writes:

I think the first question is is the flashrom community happy to have
these bindings live inside the flashrom git repo? They could live in
their own separate repos, but keeping them with flashrom will make
keeping up with libflashrom API changes more straightforward.

 I am more or less an outsider, but as a packager:

   I do not want the binding to be hooked into the main build system.

   Building flashrom is one thing, and I expect that to work pretty much
   everywhere.


Good point, I will make sure the bindings are not part of the build system.

   Building the rust bindings I expect to be not wanted by everyone who
   wants flashrom, to have heavier dependencies (rustc is beastly), and
   to have signficant portability problems.  That's all fine, but if in
   the same release tarball there should be a way to cd to some subdir,
   and build, expecting that flashrom is already installed and using the
   installed headers and libs, and expecting a rust compiler.

   I don't care at all about upstream repo organization if the rust
   binding is its own release tarball.

I agree, the bindings do not need to go in the flashrom tarball.


   I'll observe that changes to libflashrom and changes to the bindings
   may not be connected.

   Given all of the above, I think it's better to have each language
   binding be a separate repo with separate release tarballs.

I see it is possible to exclude files from the archive using .gitattributes,
but that does not make it easy to publish a libflashrom-rust-bindings
archive separately.

Does anyone know the process or contact for creating a new archive on
review.coreboot.org?

Thanks
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