Future breaking update of Rspotify

[marioortizmanero]

Hello!

I'm a maintainer of Rspotify. I picked up this library in July and have made lots of improvements since, with the help of the original maintainer. The library is now much cleaner, more flexible, and more performant. For now, these are the noticeable improvements for the end user:

• async code has dropped from 206 (!!) compilation units (~1 min 29s on my machine) to 154 (~1min 10s)
• blocking code has dropped from 207 compilation units (~1min 34s) to 103 (~1 min 1s) and now uses ureq
• from 16310 LoC to 7268 (obtained with Tokei)
• more clear documentation, getting started should be more straightforward
• i intend to make an actual benchmark with more details

And we are just at 50% of the changes we intend to make, so it'll be even better. But these kind of improvements require breaking changes. A lot of them, in fact. I wanted to ask the maintainers of this crate (which is one of the most active ones using Rspotify) for help in some discussions relating the future of Rspotify:

• Optional parameters ramsayleung/rspotify#134 Optional parameters
• Consider making the cache file a feature  ramsayleung/rspotify#135 Consider making the cache file a feature or not default
• Clean up and re-structure the errors ramsayleung/rspotify#137 Clean up and re-structure the errors
• CHANGELOG.md What we've already changed so far
• Meta-Issue ramsayleung/rspotify#127 What we are working on

Before the new release, we'd like to at least finish these changes, and afterwards we can keep adding new features and prepare for v1.0 in the far future. These include lots of proposals and changes, so don't feel the need to check out each of them. At least a bit of feedback will be useful to us.

[hrkfdn]

Hey there, thanks a lot for the heads up and the work you're putting in, much appreciated. I'll try to go through the changes and post some remarks if I have any. 👍

[hrkfdn]

Closing this as there's nothing to do for now

[marioortizmanero]

Heads up: the new release is finally out! If you need help please let us know at ramsayleung/rspotify#218