billziss-gh
commented
3 years ago The application may still handle this case by using recover(). In any case this cannot be changed, because the cgofuse interface cannot be changed in a backwards incompatible manner.
As an alternative you could provide a public function that will allow to check winfsp/fuse availability before calling mount.
I agree that having this capability may be worth adding. I will mark it as enhancement.
A call to mount should not panic when winfsp is not installed but return an error instead. This allows an application to handle this case gracefully.
https://github.com/billziss-gh/cgofuse/blob/45df47debffe20241cb2896905708913408d3152/fuse/host.go#L605-L612
As an alternative you could provide a public function that will allow to check winfsp/fuse availability before calling mount.