[delta-dev] ongoing release activities / state of rust core

hi all, Rust-core is getting more and more stable and is now part of recurring development releases for Desktop, Android and iOS. Our overall release is tracked in this github project: https://github.com/orgs/deltachat/projects/15 Dev releases are generally published to the respective github-releases pages. https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-desktop/releases https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android/releases https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-ios/releases and for iOS they also go to Testflight from time to time. If you can help with testing releases out, filing bug issues/PRs and checking if things are fixed ... that's much appreciated, also by the many people who you thus help to avoid encountering the error ;) below you find a note on the cleanup efforts after Rust-core started existing from a C2Rust translated code base. We've come a looong way! cheers, holger Rust-core cleanup effort status ------------------------------- We got rid a few days ago of the last "OK_TO_CONTINUE" patterns which came from C-level "goto". So that column is gone and we now have "unsafe fn" which indicate that a whole function is marked as unsafe. We try to push this down to the actual function parts that are unsafe. In any case, the current stats now look like this: dc_tools.rs unsafe: 29 free: 10 unsafe-fn: 11 chars: 100 wrapmime.rs unsafe: 49 free: 1 unsafe-fn: 2 chars: 12 dc_mimeparser.rs unsafe: 22 free: 5 unsafe-fn: 10 chars: 27 dc_receive_imf.rs unsafe: 13 free: 3 unsafe-fn: 13 chars: 12 e2ee.rs unsafe: 27 free: 6 unsafe-fn: 0 chars: 5 pgp.rs unsafe: 1 free: 0 unsafe-fn: 1 chars: 19 imex.rs unsafe: 7 free: 3 unsafe-fn: 0 chars: 3 aheader.rs unsafe: 8 free: 0 unsafe-fn: 0 chars: 3 mimefactory.rs unsafe: 5 free: 2 unsafe-fn: 1 chars: 3 error.rs unsafe: 0 free: 0 unsafe-fn: 0 chars: 5 dc_strencode.rs unsafe: 1 free: 2 unsafe-fn: 0 chars: 2 stock.rs unsafe: 2 free: 1 unsafe-fn: 0 chars: 1 job.rs unsafe: 3 free: 0 unsafe-fn: 0 chars: 0 message.rs unsafe: 1 free: 2 unsafe-fn: 0 chars: 0 configure/mod.rs unsafe: 1 free: 0 unsafe-fn: 1 chars: 0 imap.rs unsafe: 1 free: 0 unsafe-fn: 0 chars: 0 context.rs unsafe: 1 free: 0 unsafe-fn: 0 chars: 0 lib.rs unsafe: 1 free: 0 unsafe-fn: 0 chars: 0 key.rs unsafe: 1 free: 0 unsafe-fn: 0 chars: 0 total unsafe: 173 total free: 35 total unsafe-fn: 39 total c_chars: 192 The incoming-message (mime-parsing and processing) pipeline remains the last bigger worry. We have overall 4.83% unsafe out of 20538 overall code lines in rust-core, according to cargo-count.