Update for recent Rust version

[anselanza]

This Pull Request attempts to leave the basic crate structure the same (rpos_drv is still a separate crate) while making some adjustments to get up to date with later Rust compiler versions.

[Katletos]

Thank you man!

[anselanza]

Great, so... can this be merged?

[anselanza]

Sorry to bug you, @cnwzhjs but would you mind having a look in case this can be merged? (And published on crates.io)?

[anselanza]

Or @Katletos

[Katletos]

Or @Katletos

I am not a maintainer of this repository

[Katletos]

Or @Katletos

But thanks again for your changes, they have helped me a lot

[anselanza]

@cnwzhjs I would love to have this repository available for installation via crates.io (also so that I can publish other projects which depend on it).

Any chance of bringing this project up to date with this Pull Request and publishing it on crates.io?

Or, would you like to give ownership over the project to someone else? Or let someone else publish this on crates.io ?

[anselanza]

Oh, I see it is published on https://crates.io/crates/rplidar_drv

Then I guess I would like to know whether it can be updated so I can install the newer version from other projects?

[mik90]

@anselanza it might be best to publish your forked version on crates.io. Not sure what'd be best naming-wise (rplidar_drv2 is always an option 😆 ), but I'd like to pull it into other projects as well.

[anselanza]

@anselanza it might be best to publish your forked version on crates.io. Not sure what'd be best naming-wise (rplidar_drv2 is always an option 😆 ), but I'd like to pull it into other projects as well.

OK, done.

It's a little messy now (I had to include the rpos_drv as a module rather than a crate, because the one published on crates.io was ALSO out of date, but it "works".

Visit https://crates.io/crates/rplidar_drv_rs
Install with cargo add rplidar_drv_rs (the _rs is the only added part of the crate name)

[mik90]

@anselanza maybe the PR should be left open in case the repo owner comes back. It'd also offer some better discoverability for people trying to find an updated version.

Thank you for publishing it! Have a happy holidays 🥳

[anselanza]

Good idea, reopened for now.