ACacejam·Oct 30, 2019
This looks interesting, thanks for sharing. I've always had good success with httprb[1], but I'll give this a look over too.
[1] https://github.com/httprb/http
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3 sourcesApparently that was done in the Ruby community and Github "helpfully" uploaded all the Ruby packages to the gems repository meaning all 217 forks of https://github.com/httprb/http became potential gems.
But the underlying idea is sound: namespace and federation. Rust should ideally follow Java's solution. And it's completely forward portable: when namespacing is introduced, the crates.io/regex crates become io.crates.regex. Then you can have your com.github.majewsky.regex.
In Thoughts on Rust bloatIf you're looking for an HTTP library with an advanced timeout API that doesn't use Timeout/timeout.rb (but instead uses an asynchronous I/O layer), check out http.rb:
https://github.com/httprb/http
In Timeout: Ruby's Most Dangerous API