Version 0.50.0

[kennykerr]

This update includes the first published version of the windows-core crate (#2475) as requested in #2527.

Other crates will not be updated at this time.

[MarijnS95]

Don't the tooling crates need to be updated to emit ::windows_core code?

[kennykerr]

Don't the tooling crates need to be updated to emit ::windows_core code?

They have been, just not yet published. I suspect @Jake-Shadle is using a fork of the windows-bindgen crate and thus doesn't immediately need the official crate. I continue to polish the windows-bindgen crate, and welcome improvements, but am not in a hurry to publish another update as I recognize it still needs a lot of work.

[MarijnS95]

They have been, just not yet published.

Sure, I meant publishing them in line with this PR.

I suspect @Jake-Shadle is using a fork of the windows-bindgen crate and thus doesn't immediately need the official crate. I continue to polish the windows-bindgen crate, and welcome improvements, but am not in a hurry to publish another update as I recognize it still needs a lot of work.

I'm using these crates directly from this repo and they work out fine thus far, but I can wait for them to be published some time down the line.

[kennykerr]

I'm working on a major update that will consolidate the different ways in which windows-bindgen is used today for:

• windows and windows-sys crate generation
• third-party crate generation
• component development
• standalone code generation

This should greatly simplify the way developers consume bindings.