Continuing on a work project I mentioned months ago, I had a failure related to cross-building pnet, a library I was using to get network interfaces. As a side note, the fault was in the build process, not the crate itself. I tried a few others as replacement:
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getaddrs can't find ip address, and it's abandoned according to the author, in favor of nix crate
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interfaces also fails to cross build, and I forgot that I actually tried it before, and was the reason I moved to pnet in the first place
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systemstat works, and I already use it for a few things:
- load average
- memory usage
- uptime
So, that's one less dependency, though I do wish this functionality was available from a more pleasant API.
As a general note, I wish more people took the effort to state in the README if their software is abandoned, perhaps with mentions of alternatives.