This adopts the FFI API to use the new Context::new() and Contest::drop() Rust-style APIs while preserving the semantics of the existing FFI API. It introduces a wrapper around the context which keeps an optional reference to the actual context, changing dc_open() and dc_close() to create/destroy the actual reference. This changes the events emitted on closing slightly: they only get emitted when dc_close() was called while the context was open. While dc_close() remains idempotent in that it can still be called safely multiple times, the close events will only occur if the context is actually closed.
Delta Chat Rust
Project porting deltachat-core to rust
Current commit on deltachat/deltachat-core: 12ef73c8e76185f9b78e844ea673025f56a959ab.
Installing Rust and Cargo
To download and install the official compiler for the Rust programming language, and the Cargo package manager, run the command in your user environment:
curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
Using the CLI client
Compile and run Delta Chat Core using cargo:
cargo run --example repl -- /path/to/db
Configure your account (if not already configured):
Delta Chat Core is awaiting your commands.
> set addr your@email.org
> set mail_pw yourpassword
> configure
Connect to your mail server (if already configured):
> connect
Create a contact:
> addcontact yourfriends@email.org
Command executed successfully.
List contacts:
> listcontacts
Contact#10: <name unset> <yourfriends@email.org>
Contact#1: Me √√ <your@email.org>
Create a chat with your friend and send a message:
> createchat 10
Single#10 created successfully.
> chat 10
Single#10: yourfriends@email.org [yourfriends@email.org]
> send hi
Message sent.
If yourfriend@email.org uses DeltaChat, but does not receive message just
sent, it is advisable to check Spam folder. It is known that at least
gmx.com treat such test messages as spam, unless told otherwise with web
interface.
List messages when inside a chat:
> chat
For more commands type:
> help
Development
# run tests
$ cargo test --all
# build c-ffi
$ cargo build -p deltachat_ffi --release
Expensive tests
Some tests are expensive and marked with #[ignore], to run these
use the --ignored argument to the test binary (not to cargo itself):
$ cargo test -- --ignored
Features
vendored: When using Openssl for TLS, this bundles a vendored version.nightly: Enable nightly only performance and security related features.ringbuf: Enable the use ofslice_dequein pgp.