Can I use dua as a dependency in my app?

[janek]

hi!

Is CLI the only interface dua exposes, or is it possible to have it as a dependency in a Rust app?

Specifically, I wanted to make a GUI app in Tauri (https://tauri.app/) that relies on dua for scanning and I didn't find a way to integrate it (other than calling the terminal command from code, but that relies on user having it installed on their system).

I don't have much experience with Rust, so I'm asking to make sure I'm reading it right. If this is not possible at the moment; are there plans to do that, and would it be hard to do as a contribution?

[Byron]

dua definitely isn't meant to be used as library just yet, and making the interactive incantation usable certainly requires some work. On top of that, the new variant would have to be suitable for both the current CLI and the tauri version.

If I were you I wouldn't worry about re-use at all and instead take the pieces you need to make the tauri version work. That should yield results faster.
And I am saying that knowing that the core logic of dua is really simple, and that lots of the operations are tied to the user interface.

[janek]

wow, thanks for responding so fast (and so clearly). This sounds like great advice, I'm sure there's plenty of stuff I don't need. I will check it out!

I wasn't sure if you prefer this closed or open, so I left it like this - feel free to close of course :)