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NASA/NAIF Spice toolkit actually usable on Rust
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Another crate already exist for wrapping C spice: spice-sys. The motivation behind the creation of rust-spice was 1) the need to access the complete spice API from Rust and 2) the need to have a Rust layer to feel natural to use for Rust users.
spice-sys does not use bindgen to wrap which is error-prone and does not provide a complete API. The description of spice-sys says:
Currently, it provides only the most common API calls as outlined here.
This boosted me to build a complete C spice wrapper.
spice-sys does not provide a Rust user-friendly interface, which constrains the user to use FFI/libc tools to convert strings, floats and array to C types and using unsafe scopes.
I wanted to use spice from Rust without feeling it is a C wrapper, for quicker and simplier usage in my crates.
Many thanks to the author of the crate spice-sys for the idea of the wget script to avoid crate upload, I included your script copyrighted under your MIT license and added some modifications that I listed carefully.
Add the dependency rust-spice to your Cargo.toml:
toml
...
[dependencies]
rust-spice = "0.3.0"
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.