Use microsoft windows-rs crate? about winsafe

[rodrigocfd]

In the early days of this crate, it was a superset of the winapi crate, which provided all the low-level definitions. At some point, however, I found myself doing a lot of work due to the intrinsic unsafety of those structs.

LVITEM is a good example: it has a string pointer field, which must not be exposed... so I had to write a wrapper to the struct, although I could not hide the old one. And it started to pile up.

So, after walking in circles for a while, it made sense that the low level stuff should be part of the crate itself, what also made it possible to get rid of the heavy dependency.

So, there is no intention to go back to that situation.

Unfortunately a safe Win32 wrapper cannot be generated by a computer (so far!), so we have to pay the price of living the possibility of human errors along the process. The fact it is open source is good in this sense – several people have eyed this crate and fixed things.

It will, however, at some point make use of the windows-targets crate, see #75.

[TomzBench]

Gotcha - makes sense, thanks for the explanation!