The `links` annotation in `Cargo.toml` is intended to ensure that in the
crate graph there's at most one crate that's an implementation of
some sort concept.
This can make sense in some scenarios, most prominent of which is when
the crate defines `#[no_mangle]` symbols (e.g. by compiling a vendored C
library.) In that situation linking a binary that depends on two
versions of the library cannot work because of colliding symbol names.
There does not appear to be a similar reason to impose such a
restriction on the users of `gstreamer-sys` and similar, however. All of
these crates link to a system library, they do not define any
`#[no_mangle]` symbols nor they vendor and build C libraries as part of
their build process. All they do is linking to a system library. Most
likely all the different versions of the bindings will link to the exact
same library too.
I haven't seen any global resources that these bindings use to ensure
soundness of the library, either.
This version adds a `--strip-docs` flag to `generator.py`, used in
conjunction with `--strip-docs --embed-docs` to clean documentation
first before re-embedding it (otherwise the same text would show up
multiple times). It is also used in the CI to check that no
documentation disappears on stripping, ie. all documentation is properly
annotated with `// rustdoc-stripper-ignore-next`.
When importing the prelude of a crate like `gst` the `glib` prelude is
provided too. Shedding these imports saves quite a few lines and
adheres to keeping it simple; we're not reexporting base/parent preludes
for no reason :)
For cleanliness the prelude module only needs to reexport preludes from
direct, "top-most" crates, which themselves take care of reexporting
preludes from its dependencies again. This shaves off some code while
maintaining the same set of exports.
This was temporarily allowed by Value trait refactoring, but the root
cause of the unused imports has been found (`glib::ToValue` for property
getters) and fixed in https://github.com/gtk-rs/gir/pull/1117.
In gir it was brought up [1] that some traits (in particular
`*ExtManual`) are exported from the crate root in addition to the
prelude, cluttering the environment unnecessarily. This commit removes
all these reexports, leaving those in prelude (that were already there)
only.
After this commit everything matching `Ext(Manual)?\b` in `lib.rs` sits
within `pub mod prelude {};`.
[1]: https://github.com/gtk-rs/gir/pull/1111
