update metadata (#494)

* update metadata

* Update rust/candid_parser/Cargo.toml

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Co-authored-by: Gabor Greif <[email protected]>

Changelog.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 
 # Changelog
 
-## Rust 0.10.0
+## 2023-11-16 (Rust 0.10.0)
 
 ### Breaking changes
 

rust/README.md

@@ -6,5 +6,8 @@
 
 This directory hosts the following crates:
 
-- `candid`, a serialization/deserialization library for Candid. You can seamlessly convert between Rust values and Candid in both binary and text format.
+- `candid`, a serialization/deserialization library for Candid. You can seamlessly convert between Rust values and Candid in both binary and text format. If you are developing canisters on the Internet Computer, this should be the only crate you need.
+- `candid_parser`, parser and binding generator for Candid. You will need this crate if you are developing tools for processing Candid data and types.
+- `ic_principal`, Principal types used on the Internet Computer. The `candid` crate exports the types defined here. 
 - `candid_derive`, an internal crate to convert Rust data types to Candid types. This crate should be considered as an implementation detail, and not be used directly, only via the `candid` crate.
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rust/candid_parser/Cargo.toml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ name = "candid_parser"
 version = "0.1.0"
 edition = "2021"
 authors = ["DFINITY Team"]
-description = "Candid is an interface description language (IDL) for interacting with canisters running on the Internet Computer."
+description = "Candid is an interface description language (IDL) for interacting with canisters running on the Internet Computer. This crate contains the parser and the binding generator for Candid."
 homepage = "https://internetcomputer.org/docs/current/developer-docs/build/candid/candid-concepts"
 documentation = "https://docs.rs/candid_parser"
 repository = "https://github.com/dfinity/candid"

rust/candid_parser/README.md

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+# Candid
+
+[Candid](https://github.com/dfinity/candid/tree/master/spec/Candid.md) is an interface description language (IDL) for interacting with _canisters_ (also known as _services_ or _actors_) running on the Internet Computer.
+
+The `candid_parser` crate contains the parser and binding generator for Candid.
+
+# Usage
+
+See [the docs here](https://docs.rs/candid_parser).

rust/ic_principal/Cargo.toml

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ name = "ic_principal"
 version = "0.1.0"
 authors = ["DFINITY Stiftung <[email protected]>"]
 edition = "2021"
+description = "Principal type used on the Internet Computer."
 homepage = "https://internetcomputer.org/docs/current/references/id-encoding-spec"
 documentation = "https://docs.rs/ic_principal"
 repository="https://github.com/dfinity/candid"