escape.rs symlink broken on Windows

[lunabunn]

Current main is broken on Windows due to maud_macros/src/escape.rs being a symlink, which is broken on Windows.

The obvious fix would be to copy-and-paste the contents over, but perhaps there's a better solution?

[lambda-fairy]

Oh, that's unfortunate.

I originally added that symlink to avoid duplicating the file. I thought it was an improvement over the previous approach, which was to publish a separate helper crate that was a dependency of both.

What do other libraries do instead?

[lunabunn]

Oh, that's unfortunate.

I originally added that symlink to avoid duplicating the file. I thought it was an improvement over the previous approach, which was to publish a separate helper crate that was a dependency of both.

What do other libraries do instead?

Could we just have escape.rs live in maud_macros as a pub mod (or be reexported), and then use that from maud?

[lambda-fairy]

IIRC, proc macro crates can only export macros, not normal functions.

[Xe]

This is broken on NixOS too when building in the nix store.

[lambda-fairy]

Looks like the symlink approach has too many downsides. I'll just duplicate it then 😿