HALPI2 Rust daemon available for testing

[mairas]

Hi all HALPI2 users,

I have reimplemented the original Python-based halpi daemon in Rust. The Rust implementation should use less memory, take less disk space and potentially be more reliable. While these points have not been a problem in practice, the new daemon is by default statically compiled and should be possible to installable to any Linux platform or possibly even Android by just copying the binary. This has not been tested, though.

I have tested the functionality myself and it's been running on my development device for some time now, but I would like a bit more success reports before I dare to replace the old daemon.

The new daemon has been published in the APT repo and is called halpi2-rust-daemon. I'll change the name to halpid once it's deemed good.

If you want to try out the new daemon, install it by sudo apt update && sudo apt install halpi2-rust-daemon. It should replace the halpid daemon automatically. And report your experiences! :-)