Today we will do our first code review.

I picked a library from my colleague Luca Pizzamiglio called repoctl, which is a tool for handling FreeBSD package files in Rust. The goal is to improve the codebase and make it more robust and idiomatic.

▶ Run and edit the code on Gitpod

Keywords

Option, Result, Error handling, URL parsing, external crates

Things I mentioned during the show

• repoctl main repository
• repoctl pull request from the episode
• autoconf documentation
• UCL - the Universal Configuration Language
• Rust bindings for UCL
• URL crate
• Rust RFC - Clarify and streamline paths and visibility

Things I should have mentioned (but forgot)

• You should definitely create a pull request to repoctl! Luca and me will support you if we can. Below are some ideas.
• Replace things like fuf and fuf2 in the tests with a data provider
• Use unwrap_or_default() where useful
• Run clippy on the project and fix all code smells.
• Somebody should implement Default for Repository.

Resources and licenses

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