Here’s some commentary about the ‘simple crates’:
16:32 simple crates - there are a number of unbelievably common functions i end up reimplementing a lot
16:32 and poorly
16:33 copy_dir is just a recursive directory copy. not sure if there’s a good crate for this yet
16:34 sometimes one needs to do a copy but ignoring dotfiles. i open code this with walk_dir
16:34 but there should be a common copy_dir that covers most cases and just works
16:34 remove_dir_all is broken in std on windows
16:34 so people always reimplement in
16:34 *it
16:35 while it should be fixed in std, in the meantime somebody should just publish a working version
16:35 dojob is a common routine that cargo, rustbuild and rustup use to create process groups on Windows for killing multiple processes
16:35 but they all implement it diferently and some are missing fixes
16:36 symlink_dir would be a crate that creates symlinks to directories correctly on windows, using directory junctions
16:37 homedir would be an implementation of std::env::home that uses cargo/rustup’s definition. I consider std incorrect when it considers HOME on Windows.