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-[![Current Version](http://meritbadge.herokuapp.com/cassandra)](https://crates.io/crates/cassandra)
-[![License: MPL-2.0](https://img.shields.io/crates/l/cassandra.svg)](#License)
-
-# cassandra-rs
-
-This is a maintained rust project that
-exposes the cpp driver at https://github.com/datastax/cpp-driver/
-in a somewhat-sane crate.
-
-For the wrapper to work, you must first have installed the datastax-cpp driver.
-
-Follow the steps on the cpp driver [docs](https://github.com/datastax/cpp-driver/blob/15215e170810433511c48c304b9e9ca51ff32b2f/topics/building/README.md)  to do so. 
-
-Make sure that the driver (specifically `libcassandra_static.a` and `libcassandra.so`) are in your `/usr/local/lib64/` directory
-
-You can use it from cargo with
-
-```toml
-    [dependencies.cassandra]
-    git = "https://github.com/tupshin/cassandra-rs"
-```
-
-Or just
-
-```toml
-    [dependencies]
-    cassandra="*"
-```
-
-Here's a straightforward example found in simple.rs:
-
-
-```rust
-    #[macro_use(stmt)]
-    extern crate cassandra;
-    use cassandra::*;
-    use std::str::FromStr;
-    
-    
-    fn main() {
-        let query = stmt!("SELECT keyspace_name FROM system_schema.keyspaces;");
-        let col_name = "keyspace_name";
-    
-        let contact_points = ContactPoints::from_str("127.0.0.1").unwrap();
-    
-        let mut cluster = Cluster::default();
-        cluster.set_contact_points(contact_points).unwrap();
-        cluster.set_load_balance_round_robin();
-    
-        match cluster.connect() {
-            Ok(ref mut session) => {
-                let result = session.execute(&query).wait().unwrap();
-                println!("{}", result);
-                for row in result.iter() {
-                    let col: String = row.get_col_by_name(col_name).unwrap();
-                    println!("ks name = {}", col);
-                }
-            }
-            err => println!("{:?}", err),
-        }
-    }
-```
-
-There's additional examples included with the project in src/examples.
+THIS REPO IS NO LONGER MAINTAINED. PLEASE SEE ACTIVE FORK AT https://github.com/MetaSwitch/cassandra-rs