Implement Buf and BufMut directly on wrapped dynamic types instead of providing wrappers?

[udoprog]

Two libraries I'm using quite frequently are bstr, and bytes (who's naming convention is borrowed here), and one of their decisions is to implement an [extension trait directly on types instead of solely requiring a wrapper like the wrap module:

• bstr documentation.
• bytes documentation.

This is an option worth exploring for the audio crate, and maybe one to seriously consider. Because it would preempt questions such as the need to export the wrap module from crates, making it easier to use primitive Rust types directly meaning users might not even need to depend on the audio crate to use the library. Unless they have a specific reason like using audio crate-specific buffers.

CC: @Be-ing

[udoprog]

Note that wrap could still be used by downstreams to wrap plain slices into interleaved or planar slices since these need to be provided a channel length. This would only really serve to get rid of wrap::Dynamic.

[Be-ing]

This would only really serve to get rid of wrap::Dynamic.

That would be nice. However, if we decide to make a uniform channel length an invariant of the Buf trait (#30), implementing Buf/BufMut directly on standard library types would remove the opportunity to check that when constructing a wrapper.

[udoprog]

Would it? Such a wrapper could implement ExactSizeBuf.