Re: Separate igvmmeasure

On Thu, Mar 5, 2026 at 3:34 PM Gerd Hoffmann <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>   Hi,
>
> > It has no dependencies on the rest of the repo. It is not
> > SVSM-specific (as it should be, since IGVM is a generic format) and is
> > also useful outside the SVSM usecase as a general IGVM measurement
> > tool, for example for IGVM-wrapped OVMF binaries or other firmwares.
> > This way we could publish it on crates.io and downstream consumers
> > could easily package it.
>
> Publishing on crates.io would be great.  Also turning the crate into
> an library would be quite useful so the measurement functionality
> can easily be added to other tools.
>
> Moving it out of the svsm git repo is not a hard requirement for
> publishing on crates.io though, so continuing to maintain it in
> the tools/igvmmeasure subdirectory is an option too.
>
> take care,
>   Gerd
>

I am glad we got to discuss this at our last community call [1].
I am happy to help maintain it, should we make it a separate tool.

[1] https://github.com/coconut-svsm/governance/pull/99

 - Oliver