skeletonxf/reddit-configurable-reply-bot

Configurable Rust bot (with Lua) to provide comment replies on reddit

reddit-configurable-reply-bot's Issues

No longer compiles

Unfortunately this crate's dependency rawr which was unmaintained even before this crate was written no longer compiles at all due to ancient OpenSSL dependencies. I tried updating rawr's dependency on hyper to the latest version, but rawr also depends on an unmaintained serde_codegen which depends on an unmaintained syntex_syntax which I cannot get to compile.

I could maybe fix the hyper breakages if I looked into it enough but I've never used hyper myself and I do not understand what serde_codegen was even doing so I think removing that dependency may be beyond me. It seems to be exclusively used in rawr's responses module to preprocess rust files when building?

I suppose this is a lesson in don't write something new using something that's already dead.

At the time of writing this bot creation system rawr was the only high level reddit library I could find. From a cursory look at crates.io there appear to be some new libraries around that are in a working state.

I think if I ever pick this up again, or if someone else wants to, then the best course of action is removing this crate's dependency on rawr and replacing it with a different reddit library entirely. This should be somewhat straightforward because the only file in this crate with substantial depdendencies on rawr is reddit.rs

I am also aware that rlua is looking for maintainers...