Context & the rest shouldn't have a lifetime about gphoto2-rs HOT 5 CLOSED

Camera has a reference to a Context since it is required for most camera operations, its ok to keep the Camera lifetime for the Context right?

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Camera has a reference to a Context since it is required for most camera operations, its ok to keep the Camear lifetime for the Context right?

In principle, yes, but personally I'd instead use gp_context_ref + gp_context_unref to avoid lifetime and instead use gphoto's reference counting.

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This is actually great! Now you can initialize the camera without having to keep the context variable:

use gphoto2::{Result, Context};

fn main() -> Result<()> {
    let camera = Context::new()?.autodetect_camera()?; // This now compiles 🎉

    Ok(())
}

Thx for the reminder that gphoto had its own referencing counting!

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v1.3.4 Now includes (almost, except for CameraFS and WidgetIterator) no more lifetimes

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v1.3.4 Now includes (almost, except for CameraFS and WidgetIterator) no more lifetimes

I suspect technically it should've been 1.4.0 as it's an API breaking change, but otherwise great!

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